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Volume 8 Number 10
Colonel of the Regiment’s Foreword ............ 3 Colonel Commandant’s Foreword................ 5 Commanding Officer’s Foreword.................. 6 Honours & Awards ...................................... 7 Diary of Events ............................................ 8 A Squadron ................................................. 9 B Squadron ............................................... 14 C Squadron...............................................18 HQ Squadron ............................................ 22 Quartermaster Department ........................ 25 Motor Transport......................................... 26 Training Wing............................................. 28 Welfare Office ............................................ 30 Light Aid Detachment ................................ 31 Staff and Personnel Support Detachment..31 Catering Department ................................. 33 Regimental Aid Post .................................. 35 Gymnasium ............................................... 36 Padre’s Notes ............................................ 37 The Officers’ Mess..................................... 38 WOs’ & Sgts’ Mess ................................... 40
Editor: Major D C M Hoey Contents
Fiji Day....................................................... 52
Trailwalker.................................................. 53
Berlin Marathon ......................................... 53
Basic Sniper Operator Course ................... 54
Rugby ....................................................... 55
Football ..................................................... 57
Boxing ....................................................... 59
Golf ........................................................... 60
Basketball.................................................. 61
Sailing ....................................................... 62
Blue Dragoons Netball...............................62
Field Sports ............................................... 63
Alpine Skiing.............................................. 65
Biathlon ..................................................... 66
Army Rugby U23 ....................................... 67
Santa Rosa Ironman .................................. 67
Tpr Robins................................................. 68
Head In The Clouds Ex Flying Eagle (sky diving at Netheravon) ............................. 69
Ex Adriatic Eagle........................................ 70
Ex Alpine Eagle.......................................... 71
Ex West Express ....................................... 73
Ex Dragon Welsh Eagle ............................ 74
Ex El Chorro .............................................. 75
BMATT Nigeria .......................................... 76
Happily Drawing The Short Straw .............. 78
Indian Cavalry Visit..................................... 82
Headquarters 160 (Welsh) Bde – The View from Brecon........................................... 83
British Army Training Unit Suffield............... 84
Swanton Morley 2019
Reconnaissance and Armoured Tactics Division .................................................. 86
Field Training Unit ...................................... 87
RAC Training Regiment.............................. 87
Initial Training Group & ATC Pirbright.......... 89
Royal Military Academy Sandhurst Support Unit........................................................ 89
Royal Yeomanry......................................... 90
HMS Monmouth ........................................ 92
1er Régiment Étranger de Cavalerie – French Army...................................................... 92
1st Reconnaissance Regiment – Sri Lanka Armoured Corps .................................... 94
1st Special Service Battalion – South African Defence Force ....................................... 95
Regimental Comrades Association ............ 96
Regimental Home Headquarters................ 96
Combined Cavalry Weekend 2019 ............ 98
Officers’ Regimental Dinner ....................... 98
Combined Cavalry Memorial Parade and Service ................................................ 100
Field of Remembrance Westminster Abbey.................................................. 100
Regimental Comrades Association Dinner,Cardiff –
Saturday 27th October 2019 ............... 101
Annual Report of The Firing Line .............. 102 Regimental Heritage Trust........................ 103 Regimental Trust...................................... 107 Obituaries ................................................ 108 Valetes..................................................... 111 Regimental Gazette ................................. 125
Corporals’ Mess ........................................
Regimental Mascot –
LCpl Emrys Forlan Jones .......................
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42 Regimental Christmas Day......................... 44 Luck Cup .................................................. 45
Ex Learned Eagle – World War 1 Battlefield Study.....................................................
QDG 60th Anniversary...............................
Dining out of the Colonel of the Regiment Lt Gen Mayall ........................................
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