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of training now helmed by Maj Arthur Purbrick RL. This packed programme happily coincided with the QDG Officers Mess Summer Ball, and an opportunity for some RY officers to spend a much- missed social evening with their regular peers.
As the summer turned slowly into autumn, Mr Charlie Nash RY achieved the signal honour of being the first officer across the Army to lead an AT expedition overseas following the descent of the viral curtains of closed borders across the world. His sea kayaking expedition to Cyprus was a phenomenally hard-won achievement, and a success which demonstrates the ability of subalterns to achieve anything if a week in the sun and an ice-cold pint of Keo are involved.
With the year almost at a close, and the invisible clouds of a possible lockdown gathering over the temporal horizon, the RY embarked upon a Troop Test weekend on Salisbury Plain to test
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and confirm the skills they had already proved during the year’s field training. The winning troop, from C Sqn (led by Mr Calum Alister-Jones), were commended for their dauntless yet considered approach to attacking all of the problems set them by the Directing Staff, and
showing themselves as the epitome of the tough recce soldiers the RY and her sister the QDG continue, in concert, to train; ‘to strive, to seek, to find and not to yield’.
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