Page 4 - Mercian Eagle 2014

THE MERCIAN
EAGLE
Editor: Niall Mann Regimental Headquarters The Mercian Regiment Whittington Barracks Lichfield
Staffordshire
WS14 9TJ
Front Cover:
3 MERCIAN A Coy – Herrick 19 – ‘Dusk in the desert around Yakchal’
Back Cover:
Crich July 2014 – Regimental Mascot & Colours of The Mercian Regiment
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Contents
Foreword .............................................. 3 Regimental News .................................. 4 MERCIAN 2020 Update ........................ 4 The Mercian Regiment .......................... 4 Honours and Awards ............................ 5 1MERCIAN ............................................. 6 Foreword .............................................. 6 A (Grenadier) Company......................... 7 B (Malta) Company ............................. 12 C (Kohima) Company.......................... 15 D (Dragon) Company .......................... 18 Headquarter Company ....................... 23
The Rebasing, Reorganisation and Return to Role for the 1st Battalion Summer 2014 .................................................. 32
Trooping the Colour ............................ 34
Mons Parade 24–26 Aug 2014 ........... 35 2MERCIAN ........................................... 36 Op TOSCA ......................................... 36 A (Grenadier) Company....................... 37 B (Malta) Company ............................. 40 C (Kohima) Company.......................... 45 D (Dragon) Company .......................... 47 Headquarter Company ....................... 51 Sport and Adventure Training .............. 54 3MERCIAN ........................................... 56 Foreword ............................................ 56 A Company......................................... 57 C Company ........................................ 62 D (Dragon) Company .......................... 64 Rear Operations Group ....................... 65 3 MERCIAN Welcome Home Parades. 68
Presentation of the Freedom of Cannock Chase District Council to The Mercian Regiment and The Staffordshire Regiment Association – Friday 27 June 2014...... 70
4MERCIAN ........................................... 72 Commanding Officer’s Foreword ......... 72 A (Fusilier) Company ........................... 73 B (Malta) Company ............................. 74 C (Kohima) Company.......................... 76 Dragon Company ............................... 78 F (Gaza) Company .............................. 79 HQ Company...................................... 79
Operations .......................................... 81 Sport and Adventure Training .............. 82 The Band of The Mercian Regiment .... 84
RHQ Mercian........................................ 86
Private Derby XXX ............................... 88
With thanks to..................................... 90
MERCIAN Regiment Soldiers Shine At Invictus Games ................................... 91
Crich Pilgrimage 2014......................... 92
The Prince of Wales’s Division Adventure Training ............................................... 94
The Bowyers’ Company and its association with the Mercian Regiment 95
The Centenary of The Battle of
Gheluvelt ............................................ 96
MONS PILGRIMAGE 2014................ 101 Cadets ................................................ 103 Derbyshire ACF................................. 103
A & B Company Hereford & Worcester Cadet Bn .......................................... 104
Staffordshire And West Midlands (North Sector) Army Cadet Force................. 106
Denstone College CCF ..................... 109 Newcastle-Under-Lyme School CCF. 110 Queen Mary’s Grammar School CCF 111
Museums............................................ 114 The Friends of The Mercian Regiment
Museum (Worcestershire).................. 114
Sherwood Foresters Museum ........... 115
Staffordshire Regiment Museum ....... 116
The Mercian Regiment Museum (Worcestershire) ................................ 118
The Cheshire Military Museum .......... 120
Book Update .................................... 122 Regimental Association .................... 124 The Cheshire Regiment Association .. 124
Mercian Volunteers Regimental Association ....................................... 129
The Staffordshire Regimental
Association ....................................... 134
The Staffordshire Regiment Association Annual Reunion................................. 136
The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regimental Association ..... 138
The Regimental Gazette ................... 154
THE MERCIAN EAGLE