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Members of E Battery doing the rounds in Bolton
the Battery also deployed several LRTs across the South West of England, focussing on schools. This has truly been a Regimental team effort, involving unprecedented and praiseworthy coopera- tion across Batteries. At the time of writing, elements of B, E and O/HQ Battery are deployed to London to assist in Op WARM WELCOME, processing the arrival of Afghan refugees who are presently being accommodated in London hotels.
Op WARM WELCOME has already produced several very human stories. Lt Newnham (B Battery) was deployed initially on Op PITTING and helped an Afghan family gain access to the UK during the evacuation from Kabul Airport – he was later reunited with the same family on Op WARM WELCOME, where he was
Gnr Clifford and Sgt Curtis (OHQ Battery) deployed to John Cabot Academy in the fight against COVID-19
SSgt Porter (E Battery BQMS) donating unused sandwiches to a local food bank in Bolton
able to continue to assist their resettlement. In an extraordinary coincidence, WO2 Graham (E Battery) was fortuitously reunited with an interpreter he had met during Operation HERRICK nearly a decade earlier – in the lobby of a London hotel.
When 1 RHA eventually stands down from its UKRU responsibili- ties on 3rd December 2021, it will be with an enormous sense of pride in a job well done. MACA has emerged from simply one responsibility among many for the British Army to one of its pri- mary outputs over the past 18 months. This switch-fire has been met in the typical fashion by the men and women of 1 RHA – with readiness, leadership, cohesion and an acknowledgement of our legacy.
Pictured Sgt Jacques (E Battery) at a Lateral Flow Testing station
Members of OHQ Battery assisting Clevedon School under Op RESCRIPT
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