Monday, 22 June 2026

Anyone recognise this figure?

 This Sean Bean figure was in with the sailors, anyone recognise the make?

I ask so l could perhaps buy some riflemen to go with this officer.

Or perhaps rather than SB he could someone else

Loyal Masonic Volunteer Rifle Corps / Manchester and Salford Independent Rifle Regiment / Manchester and Salford Rifle Corps / Royal Manchester Riflemen 

Lieut Col Comm Joseph Hanson (wrongly, Handson), Lieut Col Comm Samuel Taylor. Date of earliest commissions 9 August 1803. A prosperous cloth merchant with no previous military experience, Hanson vigorously promoted the organisation of his rifle corps in 1803 in the face of opposition by established volunteer officers such as Ackers, though the original “Masonic” title was soon dropped. Hanson’s dispute with John Leigh Philips is outlined above, but in a pamphlet of late 1805 he again courted controversy by his fierce criticisms of “independent”, or self-supporting, volunteers. In December 1807 he resigned his command of the Rifle Corps, and launched himself into radical politics and petitions for peace. In 1809 he was arrested, on unreliable evidence, for his role in a large meeting of weavers at St George’s Fields, Manchester, tried and jailed for six months. After a period of declining ill health, he died in 1811.

The Rifle Regiment was apparently disbanded in early 1808.

This corps originated in a modest resolution at a meeting of 15 July 1803 to form an “Independent Company of Volunteer Riflemen”. By the time of his proposal of 31 July, Hanson’s offer was to raise “four companies of riflemen to serve in the first instance in the towns and neighbourhood of Manchester and Salford and in case of invasion, in any part of Great Britain.” By late August the offer had been augmented, to include two additional companies of riflemen.

Hanson’s original proposal included: “the Corps to find their own clothes, accoutrements &c.” Willson’s chart gives green faced black, black officer’s lace, green pantaloons. Aston’s Guide noted “handsome uniforms of dark green and … rifle guns and sabres.”


Might work for  Hanson? Hmmmm


10 comments:

  1. I think it might be the limited edition Sharpe figure by Wargames Foundry

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    1. Interesting.
      Alan Tradgardland

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  2. My guess would be it's a Redoubt Figure.
    Stephen

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    1. He’s quite short, so not sure. I should have put a figure for height comparison.
      Alan Tradgardland

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  3. Definately work for your Hanson chap, no idea about the figure, theres a lot of them about!
    Best Iain

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    1. Agree on both fronts.
      Alan Tradgardland

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  4. Redoubt PX15, Napoleonics/Extras/Specials

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    1. I will take a look..
      Alan Tradgardland

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  5. A dashing blade, whoever he is. Is your Hanson man from your Fathers Day Napoleonic Home Guard volunteers book?

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  6. He is dashing. Saw Hanson in my gifted book and decided to research a tad on the web.
    Alan Tradgardland

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