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The Regimental Journal of The Light Dragoons
Don’t fall in
holding. The colour of smocks and trousers slowly turned brown as peat covered every surface until the final sandbag was placed on top. Amidst the groans of lifting the peat and trudging through the water, there were the glimmer of smiles as everyone found it hysterical that this was yet another Thursday at RD. The weather let off slightly and the clouds raised just enough to see and hear the deer that lived up in the hills – probably wondering why we were out in such conditions.
If the route up was slow, the route back was with reinvigorated pace. Soldiers moving at breakneck speeds with the promise of a fish and chips at the second-best chippy in the UK, and therefore the best chippy in Shap. Another good deed by the Light Dragoons, and a performance that has the team from the Three Gorges calling daily.
Soggy
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