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The Queen’s Royal Lancers (QRL) and 9/12th Royal Lancers amalgamated on Sat 2 May 2015 at Richmond Castle, in the presence of Her Royal Highness the Queen on a very wet day up here in North Yorkshire. The Royal Lancers are now the Lead Armoured Cavalry Regiment within the Armoured Corps. The event was an exceptional day and evening despite the weather.
The newly formed Regiment quickly integrated by carrying out a military skills competition namely ‘Omdurman Shield’ for all Sqns, which comprised of 14 teams including my gym staff. I was tasked with carrying out the penultimate stand of ‘Casualty Extraction’ whereby each team came through for scenario brief by myself, followed by an endurance
12 ARMD BDE
THE ROYAL LANCERS
SSgt (SSI) AL Davis RAPTC
element carrying a stretcher and a 75kg dummy over a route littered with ERV, water tunnels, ambushes by the enemy, completing the obstacle course before reaching the FRV.
During Contingency, the Regiment were on standby as the Lead Armoured Cavalry Regiment, but still managed to embrace sport where willing to make a name for the new Regiment. The Unit won the UK North festival of Sport by a landslide, which was great preparation for the RAC Hodson’s Horse Sports competition which the unit also won along with the RAC Boxing Championships. The Unit also entered the Inter-Unit Boxing Championships and has so far made their way through to the quarter nals. The highlight from a regimental prospective has to be the
SSgt Davis delivering brief over model
Troops on casualty extraction ‘Troops nearing the ERV
Soldier heading through water tunnel ‘Stealth approach’
Team negotiating the Cargo Net ‘Buddy Buddy System
The Queen during Amalgamation Parade at Richmond Castle