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52 The Regimental Journal of The King’s Royal Hussars
Chinless wonders – Lts Cavendish, Brown, Palmer-Price, and Oldroyd doing what the Mess does best (shame about the skiing)
to play the Mess late into the night. This event was also the first official outing for ‘Mega Speaker’ of which you will no doubt read more about in Officers’ Mess articles for years to come; its air- horn the rallying cry of the subaltern and the scourge of the PMC. The year had certainly started in fine fettle.
Winter Sports were once again on the rise, with all their asso- ciated chinnery. Cresta was un-ably led by Capt Barrell, who fortunately for him had Lt Hill to save his blushes, and Alpine skiing enjoyed a bumper year over Christmas and New Year. Lt Brown clocked up nine weeks in the mountains with four officers deployed to Verbier – that’s the kind of trawl we like, Ops. Despite these noble efforts, the crowning glory of subaltern planning and execution was the regimental ski trip to Val Thorens – the infa- mous ALPINE HAWK. Legends have been told, investigations instigated, and fortunes won (Maddison) and lost (PRI). Just like all momentous events that generate so much furore and frenzy,
An open-air screening of Top Gun enjoyed in flying-suit order
the whole truth will never be known but the following facts can be verified. 2Lt English earnt his spurs in a far from salubrious nightclub, taking a pummelling from a bouncer for the actions of Capts Barrell and Worth. Lt Oldroyd buried all personal pos- sessions and dignity deep in a snow drift, and Capt Maddison let every European schoolgirl know of his exploits ‘on opera- tions’, and of his flat in Fulham. After three long weeks in that debauched resort the subalterns, having bled the PRI dry, pulled stumps on the ‘exercise’. Mullets freshly shaved and with the taste of WKD and tobacco stained into the back of their throats, the white angels finally arrived to take the bushed Hussars back to Blighty. As they travelled home no one had the serotonin left in their bodies to feel a recognisable sense of happiness, but a feeling was dawning that 2022 was going to go down as a fine vintage.
The age-old adage that ‘the Army giveth, and the Army taketh away’ was certainly brought home over the spring and summer
Op YEWTREE missed this one...
C Squadron Stables Parade for bicycle polo