3-053-762 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Breaking up or the Royal Engineers' Camp on Darmoor, 1873. The British Army in Devon. 'In taking leave of that moist region, the famous Devonshire wilderness, a party of the Royal Engineers amused themselves with an effigy of the local Demon of Wet Weather, whom they had invented for a mythical impersonation of all the grievances that Sir Charles Staveley's army so lately suffered. This obnoxious deity was punished for the discomfort he had caused them by committing him to the flames of an avenging pyre'. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.