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84 The Regimental Journal of The King’s Royal Hussars
Captain Sebastian Teuber
Valetes
Captain Adam Kula-Przezwanski
Capt Seb Teuber commissioned in August 2017, and it was the privi- lege of the KRH to welcome a self- proclaimed ‘bladerunner’ having been a JUO in the Sovereign’s Platoon. The theme of coming sec- ond continued on his Troop Leaders course. On arriving at Regimental Duty the Mess quickly realised Seb was utterly infallible, and in order to distinguish him from his peers promoted him to ‘The Brigadier’.
The Brigadier’s first test was Prairie Storm 18/2, deploying in March 2018 with A Sqn under the KRH Battlegroup. However, as was his style he chose to lead from the rear, initially as the Sqn’s ambulance commander, then as the D callsign for PJ’s troop. Off the back of a BATUS it was decided Seb had earned his spurs, and in October he deployed with his horse to Montelibretti (the Italian Cavalry School) to compete in an international show jumping competition. To round off his first year at Regiment The Brigadier was tasked with organising the Brocklehurst Boxing Cup, and, as the non-boxing boxing officer,
bravely planned an inter-sqn competition for others to fight in.
In 2019 the KRH Battlegroup embarked on Op CABRIT 4 in Estonia. A long deployment of 9 months. Seb again deployed with A Sqn, this time as 4th Tp Ldr. While deployed he delivered the most complex LFTT package the KRH have undertaken in cor- porate memory, a truly impressive feat. However, having used all his planning acumen on the Squadron’s LFTT he double booked his girlfriend and Glastonbury on R&R, and subsequently pri- oritised poorly! While deployed on Op CABRIT Seb saw another opportunity, but this time on an international scale, to dust off his gloves as the non-boxing boxing officer. Seb ran a hugely suc- cessful Boxing night in the local town of Rakvere, bringing in dignitaries from the UK, Estonia, and France as well as competi- tors from five countries.
On recovery from Estonia Seb took over a A Sqn 2IC, although this was more in name than nature as he bounced from Sailing in the Caribbean, to cultural visits in Thailand, to Diving in the Philippines. Seb’s time as a 2IC was cut short as he gained an attachment to 1 RGR as their Intelligence Officer and in October 2020 moved from Tidworth to Folkestone. While with the Gurkhas Seb was deployed COVID Testing in Kent (taking over the commitment from a KRH Sqn!), Public Order training, and on light role exercises... however, the highlight of the attachment was deploying to Kosovo wearing a maroon beret with a crimson backed hawk (it looked ghastly).
The Brigadier leaves as the most medallically recognised KRH subaltern (having just snuck into the Platinum Jubilee Medal awarding criteria) to the City where he will join Citibank on their Sales and Trading training scheme. Seb will be sorely missed, a splendid personality and genuine professional. We wish him the very best in the future.
Capt Kula-Przezwanski, known by the much more pronounceable acro- nym KP, commissioned in August 2015, before attending his Troop Leaders course and benefiting from a break between Gunnery and Tactics which allowed his first expo- sure to Regimental Duty to be Ex CULLODEN HAWK (field sports and tequila) in January 2016. On subsequent completion of tactics he was assigned to A Sqn. KP felt immediately at home in A Sqn as the only person at Regimental Duty,
soldier or officer, who wore more lycra and had more interesting hair was his OC, Major Andy Grimditch. KP’s love of lycra, 300 Club-winning fitness and penchant for niche sports (he was Secretary of the Army Real Tennis and Rackets Association) made him the obvious candidate to ski up hills rather than down. Whilst at RD he competed in two seasons of biathlons in Norway and Austria. The 2016/17 season was the most successful in KRH history.
KP’s time as a troop leader in A Sqn was professionally focused on Readiness, and maintaining currency through the cycle of CMR and BATUS. It was this that gave him the knowledge he needed to survive a particularly flaky series of OCs as D Sqn 2IC – twice stepping up for protracted periods as Sqn Ldr. Most notably while deployed on Op CABRIT 4 in Estonia where, terrifyingly, he commanded a fifth of NATO’s enhanced Forward Presence (eFP) battlegroup on operations.
After the Regiment recovered from Estonia at the end of 2019 KP left Regimental Duty for more mysterious pastures, moving from Tidworth to Warminster to join the Strike Experimentation Group as their lead SO3 for Operations and Training. In September 2020 ‘The Group’ (as it was fondly referred to by KP) was redesignated the Ground Manoeuvre Experimentation Group and re-subordinated to 3XX where KP became the Armd SME as SO3 Combat Heavy. This was based in Bulford, meaning that KP could move back into the Mess in Tidworth and pretend he was a subbie rather than a staff officer!
As an avid sportsman its unsurprising KP met his future employer playing tennis in Gurnsey. KP leaves the Army to join a Tech Start-Up (employee No 5) based in Bristol. What the Regiment has lost someone else has gained. The KRH trophy cabinet will be much barer for his departure. We wish him the very best in all his future endeavours.