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REGIMENTAL JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL LANCERS (QUEEN ELIZABETHS’ OWN)
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Colonel Commandant’s Foreword.................................................................. 3 Colonel of the Regiment’s Foreword............................................................ 4 Commanding Officer’s Foreword.................................................................... 5 Regimental Diary 2019 ............................................................................................. 6
Regimental Articles...................................................................................................7 Crew Commanders’ Dinner.................................................................................. 7 Rewarding Excellence................................................................................................ 8 Exercise ARROW .......................................................................................................... 8 PNCO Cadre February 2019 ............................................................................. 10 PNCO Cadre July 2019 .......................................................................................... 10 Anti-Tank Concentration..................................................................................... 11 Sniper Cadre....................................................................................................................12 Return to Lethality – Exercise WATERLOO LANCER ....... 14 Cambrian Patrol...........................................................................................................15 The Peto Cup .................................................................................................................. 16 The Regimental Weekend...................................................................................18 Remembrance Day..................................................................................................... 20 Exercise CASSINO LANCER......................................................................... 22 Exercise LEVANT GAUNTLET................................................................25 Ex LONGLOOK – Inbound............................................................................ 26 Exercise LONG LOOK – Outbound........................................................ 27 NATO Peace Support Operations Cooperation Course............ 28 Bastille Day Parade 2019...................................................................................... 29 Last Night of the Proms – Harrogate ...................................................... 30
The Squadrons ............................................................................................................ 33 A Squadron....................................................................................................................... 33 B Squadron ....................................................................................................................... 37 C Squadron ....................................................................................................................... 41 An Ode to C Squadron ........................................................................................... 45 D Squadron ...................................................................................................................... 46 Headquarters Squadron......................................................................................... 50 Command Troop..........................................................................................................52 The Light Aid Detachment ............................................................................. 52 AGC (SPS) Detachment........................................................................................ 53 The Quartermaster Department.................................................................... 55 The Quartermaster Technical Department ......................................... 55 Motor Transport Troop .......................................................................................... 56 Training Wing .............................................................................................................. 57 Catering Department............................................................................................... 58 Lancer Welfare .............................................................................................................. 60
The Messes..................................................................................................................... 62 The Officers’ Mess ..................................................................................................... 62
Contents
Exercise FINAL FLING .................................................................................... 65 Warrant Officers’ and Sergeants’ Mess .................................................... 66 Corporals’ Mess............................................................................................................. 67
Sports and Adventurous Training............................................................. 68 Inaugural Sports Dinner Night...................................................................... 68 Football ................................................................................................................................ 71 Rugby..................................................................................................................................... 71 Road Cycling and Ex FREEWHEELING LANCER 19 ........ 72 Cycle for CALM........................................................................................................... 75 Cricket ................................................................................................................................. 76 Orienteering..................................................................................................................... 76 Triathlon ............................................................................................................................. 77 Equestrian Sport..........................................................................................................78 Judo ......................................................................................................................................... 79 Powerlifting...................................................................................................................... 80 Cowes Week or ‘Quick, someone get Arthur back in the
boat!’ ............................................................................................................................. 81 Fishing.................................................................................................................................. 83 Exercise SUPREME GLACIER.................................................................... 83 Exercise ALPINE LANCER 19/20............................................................. 84 Exercise NORDIC LANCER 19/20 ........................................................... 85
ERE ......................................................................................................................................... 88 From Changing the Bank to Transforming Defence .................. 88 Deliverance....................................................................................................................... 89 Officer Commanding C Sqn, The Household Cavalry
Regiment .................................................................................................................... 90 663 Squadron AAC....................................................................................................92 Tinker, Soldier, Student, Snowflake ......................................................... 93 Defence Ordnance Safety Group – A step into the
unknown.................................................................................................................. 93 Field Training Unit – a Lancer Dream Team....................................94 This Road Led to Rome........................................................................................ 95 SO2 G35 Force Troops Command/ 6th (United Kingdom)
Division....................................................................................................................... 96 Life After RSO .............................................................................................................. 97 Lancers in the Combat Communications and Information
Systems School ..................................................................................................... 98 Armoured Fighting Vehicle Technical Training School (TTS) Gunnery Wing....................................................................................................... 98 Royal Lancers TACP ............................................................................................... 99
The Armoured Trials and Development Unit, AJAX User Engagement Team........................................................................................... 100
AJAX; the Future of Strike from a Commander’s
Perspective ............................................................................................................. 100
Allied Regiments and Affiliations ......................................................... 101 100 Squadron, Royal Air Force ................................................................... 101 Uppingham School Combined Cadet Force .................................... 102 King’s School Combined Cadet Force.................................................. 103 2 Squadron, Lincolnshire Army Cadet Force ................................ 104 B Squadron, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland
(LNR) Army Cadet Force........................................................................106 LNR ACF at The Victory Show 2019.................................................... 106 LNR ACF Corps of Drums at The Royal Variety Show.......107 D Squadron, Nottinghamshire Army Cadet Force.................... 108 Priory Heath (Royal Lancers), C Company, Suffolk Army
Cadet Force ........................................................................................................... 109
Home Headquarters............................................................................................ 110 RLOCA Branch And HHQ Events 2020............................................ 113
Museums ........................................................................................................................ 114 Royal Lancers Museum Trust....................................................................... 114 Derby Museum .......................................................................................................... 114 The Royal Lancers and Nottinghamshire Yeomanry
Museum.................................................................................................................... 115 The Regimental Armoured Car Badge ................................................. 116 Sergeant James Synott 5L – Medals Returned to Family.... 118
RLOCA and Branches ...................................................................................... 119 The Royal Lancers (Queen Elizabeths’ Own) Old Comrade’s Association (RLOCA) ................................................................................. 119
Grantham Branch (Death or Glory Boys) ........................................ 120 North West Branch (Balaklava Troop).................................................. 120 South East Branch (Omdurman Troop) .............................................. 121 Stoke Branch (Aliwal Troop).........................................................................122 17/21L Band Branch ............................................................................................ 123 Aliwal Dinner 2020................................................................................................123 Northern Smoker.....................................................................................................124 Southern Smoker ..................................................................................................... 125 Centenarian Lancer ............................................................................................... 126 OCA Out and About.............................................................................................. 127
Obituaries ...................................................................................................................... 128 In Memoriam 2019 - 2020 ................................................................................ 128 Regimental Gazette ................................................................................................ 138 Marriages and Births ............................................................................................ 146 Honours and Awards............................................................................................148
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