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164 REGIMENTAL JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL LANCERS (QUEEN ELIZABETHS’ OWN) Honours and Awards
Queen’s Gallantry Medal
Captain GEG Moon
Long Service and Good Conduct
Brigadier AG Hughes CBE Colonel RO Slack OBE Colonel NJ Best OBE Colonel JNE Buczacki Lieutenant Colonel MJ Mudd DSO Lieutenant Colonel HL Searby OBE Staff Sergeant E O’Hara Sergeant S Barrowcliff Sergeant D Gillespie Sergeant P Mawby Sergeant S McAuley Sergeant R Miles
Sergeant M Rogers Sergeant RA Smith Sergeant I Whitehead-Junior Corporal J Hart
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
Commander Brigadier AG Hughes MBE
Member Major MP Morrissey
Chief of the General Staff ’s Commendation
Captain JA Cassidy
Joint Commander’s Commendation
Major CJ Blakey
Brigade Commander’s Commendation
Staff Sergeant VK Darko Corporal JH Watkinson
The Major Lindsay Memorial Trophy
Awarded to one or more serving members in the rank of Trooper or JNCO in recognition of an outstanding sporting or military achieve- ment (or related to all round sporting and military performance) throughout the previous year:
Corporal BT Smith Corporal SP Ellerby Corporal J Hart Trooper H Sands
The ‘Ned Mann’ Memorial Prize
Awarded in competition between the officers for athletic, equestrian or other sporting activity:
Lieutenant WOA Kellard
The John Garner Richards Memorial Fund
Presented annually at the Commanding Officer’s discretion to one or more serving members of the Regiment, in the rank of Sergeant or above, in recognition of an outstanding sporting or military achieve- ment performed during the previous year:
Staff Sergeant E O’Hara Sergeant D Edwards
The Thornton Sword
The Thornton Sword is awarded to the Troop Leader with the best performance in the field:
Lieutenant DJ Clarkson
Chevaliers
Major DR Mantell, (see page 145) a troop leader with the East Riding Yeomanry on D Day and transferred to 16th/5th Lanc- ers at the end of World War II.
Ron Collyer, 92 year old Ron Collyer who was a trooper in the 59th Reconnaissance Regiment during the landings in Nor- mandy on 6th June 1944 and later transferred to the 17/21st Lancers.
NATIONAL HONOURS
REGIMENTAL PRIZES AND AWARDS
FOREIGN
USA
Defense Meritorious Service Medal
Colonel WPO English
FRANCE
Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur