Page 111 - Light Dragoons 2022 CREST
P. 111

                                Chairman of the Officers’ Dinner N P H R Chamberlin Esq
After a year without a Regimental Officers’ Dinner during 2020, it was good to assemble once more in the favored haunt of the Cavalry & Guards Club at 127 Picadilly in London. Having missed a year, it seemed more officers’ than normal were booking in for this dinner and the numbers proved it with 127 sitting down to dine. We had been informed a week or two before the dinner that King Abdullah (Colonel in Chief) was looking to join us, which we all looked forward to, however, in this so unstable world his head of state commitments needed him elsewhere, and 48 hours before the dinner he needed to cancel which was disappointing, but understandable.
We saw The Honorable Adrian Pery fly from Canada to be with us, we also saw Gerald Oxley from Abu Dhabi. The Commanding Officer brought all of his serving Regimental Officers from Castlemartin Ranges, Pembrokeshire in Wales, a mere 5 hour drive each way. The Colonel of the Regiment hosted a top table which included Col Hannah Stoy (Colbeck) as our newest Light Dragoons Charitable Trust Trustee and we were pleased to see Maj Gen Stuart Watson CBE, our D-Day veteran join us yet again on the top table for the evening. Brig Angus Watson MBE as Colonel of the Regiment made speeches which allowed him, finally, the oppor- tunity to officially thank Maj Gen David Rutherford-Jones CB as outgoing Colonel of the Regiment some 21 months after handover (March 2020), this all due to the pandemic restricting an opportunity to say farewell and thank you officially. The Colonel of the Regiment informed all that the Regimental Secretary, Maj Mel Tazey MBE is to retire in the summer of 2022 and thanked him for his dedication and loyalty to the appointment over his 11 years in post.
A special thank you was made to the Chairman of the Officers’ Dinner Capt Nick Chamberlin who has provided menus and selected wines at the club whilst attending the last 50 years of Officers’ din- ners only missing one during this time.
The meal and wine as always were first class, I have to mention on this occasion how helpful the Cavalry and Guards Club are on each of our visits and I would like a special mention to Alix Farmer as the events coordinator, a lady we badger as we chop and change our numbers (for good reason) during the whole process up until sitting down on the evening. We all look forward to the next dinner which will be Thursday 10th November 2022.
Capt W H J Addison Capt A T J Alderman Lt Col D R Amos Capt M A J Barber Capt B R Barkes Capt J R Barkes
Maj G Bartholomew QCVS Capt Q C Batterbury
Capt P A F Bernard
Capt E J Black
Capt O E S Blake
Capt J W M Blakiston
Capt C J R Blunt MP
Capt M G F Brennan
Lt Col M H Browell
Capt B Buchan
Maj A Bullock
Capt T R Burles
Capt W E D Carver
A G N C Chamberlin Esq
Capt N P H R Chamberlin
Lt Col J E Chandler
Col T J Checketts OBE
Capt D J Chubb
Capt F E V Chubb
Capt J F Clacy
R J T Cliff Esq
Lt Col C T Colbeck
Lt Gen R A Cordy-Simpson KBE CB DL Capt J H S Dalley
Capt S T H Davies
Lt J N Digby
Maj L C Dodington
Lt D H Elkington
Lt F G C Ellis
Capt E J B Elston
C W E Elwell Esq
Brig A G C Fair DSO + Bar OBE
Col R J W ffrench-Blake
Capt R J A Fox
Maj H C Freeman
Maj H J R Geaves
Maj R P Glover
Capt C Godfrey
Lt Col M R Good
Capt T D R Gregg MC
Lt O L S Griffiths
Maj C G M Gubbins
Capt P D Gummer
Capt M Hanbury-Tenison
Maj J Harle
Lt Col C A Le Hardy
Lt Col J M Harris
Capt E F A Holford-Walker
Maj C L Homewood
Lt G Innes
Capt W D M James
Lt D O W Jefferis
Lt Col S Jordan
Col J S Knox
Lt Col S W Ledger
Maj N Lees
Maj D C Lenherr
Brig S R Levey
Lt A Lines
H G S Lloyd Esq
J S Lloyd Esq
Capt The Hon E J Lowther
Capt R G S Luckyn-Malone
J G MacDonald-Smith Esq Maj T J Martin TD
Lt Col R C Matthews
Lt W G McDonald
Capt S McIntyre
Lt J Montgomery-Stuart
Capt M J Moore OBE
Maj Sir E D Nall
W G J Nall Esq
Capt S D Nicholson
Capt A D L Norton
Lt H B L Norton
Col O J F Nurton
Lt Col R C B Nutting
Capt K O’Connor
Maj H P Ogden
Maj J A G Oxley
Capt D F E Paske
Lt Col A C B Pearce
Maj The Hon A P Pery
Capt A T B Pike
Maj E J Quicke MBE
Capt J A Quicke
Lt Col R N B Quicke
Capt M Reed MBE
Lt M Riall
Capt S J Rigby
Lt Col T R M Robinson
Capt I J F Royle
N H F Royle Esq
Capt A R G Rudd
Capt J F Rugge-Price
Maj Gen D J Rutherford-Jones CB Capt G A Rutherford-Jones
Lt Col R D Scott
Capt E R W Scrope
Maj P G Scrope DL
Capt R W M Scrope QCVS
Col J A M A Selfe
Maj W A Shuttleworth
Capt A J Smith
Capt N E Smith
Lt Col N S Southward OBE
Maj Gen A R E de C Stewart CB CBE Capt G H R Stewart
Col H J Stoy
Capt A V Strawbridge
Maj M Tazey MBE
Maj A C Thirlaway
Capt E W Tibbits
Capt J P Vaughan
Lt Col S J A Ward
Brig H A Watson MBE
Maj Gen H S R Watson CBE
Col R I Webb-Bowen
Lt Col R E Wiles
Capt P C G Witheridge
Capt A H Young
The Regimental Journal of The Light Dragoons
 Officers’ Dinner
  109
  
   109   110   111   112   113