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The Regimental Journal of The King’s Royal Hussars
Cpl Buckley working the crowds at Independence Day
SSM Dyer and the guard of honour at the OC’s wedding
Coasteering
for the training but also as an opportunity to explore. The middle weekend was kept free and most took the chance to take a break in Hamburg, Düsseldorf or Hannover.
While many of the haunts there are well known, Jersey was some- thing completely new. Sixty of the Squadron were able to fly to St Helier and occupy the small Reservist Engineer barracks there. From that base, daily expeditions launched mountain biking, trekking and coasteering (a novel form of entertainment that seems to involve a mix of exhausting sea-flailing and jumping off cliffs). Impromptu chef Corporal Dan Hayes cooked up three chickens per man and somehow everyone avoided salmonella. July in Jersey was everything it had promised – sand, sea, sun- shine and adventure – and the Squadron returned to the business of the tank park in high spirits.
Trekking
Cpls Samuels, Selcraig and Hulbert feline fine
Tprs Marks and Knight get to grips with sumo
