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REGIMENTAL JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL LANCERS (QUEEN ELIZABETHS’ OWN)
REGIMENTAL JOURNAL OF
THE ROYAL LANCERS (QUEEN ELIZABETHS’ OWN)
Editor: Major JR Hood • Assistant Editor: Major (Retd) PA Watson @TheRoyalLancers • Facebook.com/TheRoyalLancers
Colonel Commandant Royal Armoured Corps .......................3 Colonel of the Regiment’s Foreword........................................4 Commanding Officer’s Foreword.............................................5 Regimental Diary 2018..............................................................6
Regimental Articles..................................................................7
Firm foundations – 2018 ........................................................... 7 Developing Divisional Level Ground Reconnaissance Forces 8 PNCO Cadre February 2018 ..................................................10 12 Brigade Sniper Cadre..........................................................11 Innovation in the Royal Lancers............................................12 Loya Jirga..................................................................................12 Cambrian Patrol ......................................................................13
Operation TOSCA 28 .............................................................15
Operations Company ............................................................... 16 Influence Team ......................................................................... 18 Mobile Force Reserve Company.............................................20 United Nations Military Skills Competition.........................22 Support Company ....................................................................24 Regimental Adventurous Training Team...............................28 Rear Operations Group............................................................30
The Squadrons ........................................................................32
A Squadron...............................................................................32 B Squadron ...............................................................................34 C Squadron ............................................................................... 37 D Squadron...............................................................................42 Headquarters Squadron ..........................................................44 Command Troop.......................................................................46 The Light Aid Detachment .................................................... 46 The Royal Lancers AGC (SPS) Detachment.........................48 The Quartermaster’s Department .......................................... 49 The Quartermaster Technical Department ...........................50 Motorised Transport ................................................................ 51 Training Wing ..........................................................................52 Catering Department...............................................................53 Regimental Welfare Office.......................................................54
Messes ......................................................................................55
The Officers’ Mess ...................................................................55 Final Fling 31 – 40 Years of Field Sports...............................59 Warrant Officers’ and Sergeants’ Mess ..................................60 Corporals’ Mess .......................................................................63
Sports & Adventure Training................................................64
Rugby ........................................................................................ 64 Hockey ...................................................................................... 65 Orienteering.............................................................................. 65 Endurance Running.................................................................66 Wadi Rum Ultra Marathon ....................................................67 Boxing ....................................................................................... 68
Fourth Edition
Contents
Triathlon ................................................................................... 68 Equestrian ................................................................................. 69 Field Sports...............................................................................70 Coarse Fishing..........................................................................71 Swimming and Water Polo......................................................71 Martial Arts ..............................................................................72 Alpine Lancer...........................................................................73 Nordic Skiing ........................................................................... 74 Battledore Lancer.....................................................................76 Freewheeling Lancer and Regimental Road Cycling ........... 77 Grizzly Lancer..........................................................................78 Men of Oar................................................................................78 Golf Tour: St Andrews.............................................................79 Powerlifting ..............................................................................79 Polo – APoloA expedition to Mongolia..................................80 Blue Lancer...............................................................................82 Baltic Lancer ............................................................................83 Lakeside Lancer ......................................................................83 Hodson’s Horse ........................................................................84 White Gauntlet – Watch this! ................................................. 85
Ceremonial and Commemorative Events ...........................87
First World War Centenary Services in Mons ......................87 Battlefield Tour with the RLOCA .......................................... 89 Operation TOSCA Medal Parade...........................................90 Troopers from regiment plant 1,000 trees on royal estate .... 91
Extra Regimental Employment.............................................92
The pen is as mighty as the sword..........................................92 Delivering the iPhone Moment to the Combat Soldier ....... 94 663 Squadron, Attack Helicopter Force.................................95 A Year in Banking....................................................................96 Lancers in The Permanent Joint Headquarters....................96 Waterloo Squadron, Royal Armoured Corp Training Regiment
(RACTR) ............................................................................. 97 A Lancer in Baghdad...............................................................98 Tactical Air Control Party .......................................................98 A Lancer in the Communications and Information Systems
School ................................................................................ 100 Armoured Fighting Vehicle Technical Training School (AFV TTS)................................................................................... 101 Armoured Trials and Development Unit.............................102
Chief G5 Plans HQ MONUSCO – Democratic Republic of Congo ................................................................................. 103
Allied Regiments and Affiliations ......................................104
First heartbeat of HMS Prince of Wales .............................104 D Battery, 3 Royal Horse Artillery ....................................... 105 100 Squadron RAF.................................................................106 Lord Strathcona’s Horse (Royal Canadians) ......................107 2018 at the first Marines: Growing in Power and Operational
Projections Abroad...........................................................108
Brewers’ Company Affiliation 2018......................................109 The King’s School Grantham Combined Cadet Force.......110 Uppingham School Combined Cadet Force........................111 Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland (LNR) Army
Cadet Force .......................................................................111 Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland Army Cadet
Force – Victory Show 2018..............................................113 Lincolnshire Army Cadet Force...........................................114 Lincolnshire ACF (2 Squadron) participates in the nationwide
Armistice 100 initiative ...................................................114 My Last Remembrance Sunday as an Army Cadet.............115 Nottinghamshire Army Cadet Force....................................115
Home Headquarters .............................................................116
Home Headquarters Mons Battlefield Tour 2018 ............... 120 Regimental Association Welfare Support to Ex-Lancers –
2018 .................................................................................... 121 OCA Out and About .............................................................. 122
Museums ................................................................................124
Regimental Museum of the 9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales’s) .............................................................................124 QRL and NY Museum ..........................................................124
RLOCA and Branches ........................................................125
Royal Lancers (Queen Elizabeths’ Own) Old Comrades’ Association (RLOCA)......................................................125 QRL Branches........................................................................127 Stoke Branch (Aliwal Troop).................................................127 South East Branch (Omdurman Troop)...............................128 East Midlands Branch (Fondouk Troop).............................129 North West Branch (Balaclava Troop)..................................129 Aliwal Dinner.........................................................................131 17/21L Band Branch..............................................................132 Southern Branch ..................................................................132
The 9th Queen’s Royal Lancers –
Queen Adelaide’s Cypher ................................................133
Return To Mons, 100th Anniversary....................................135 The 9th Lancers and the assault on the ‘Quadrilateral’ during the Battle of the Somme, 15 September 1916 ................ 138
Obituaries ...............................................................................142
In Memoriam..........................................................................142 Regimental Gazette................................................................150 Operation TOSCA 28 Regimental Orbat.............................154 Officers at Extra Regimental Employment..........................156 Soldiers at Extra Regimental Employment ......................... 157 Marriages ................................................................................ 158 Births ....................................................................................... 158 List of Attendees Officers Dinner 2018 ............................... 159 Honours and Awards ............................................................. 160
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