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Staff Sergeant B Leaning
Captain JPH Walker
W Warre Esq
Lance Corporal M Slack Staff Sergeant S Hunter Corporal V Gatenby Trooper P Probert
Staff Sergeant P Frost BEM Mr J Bates
16/5L
17/21L
12L
16/5L
16/5L and QRL 16/5L
WO2 RC Travis
Roger Charles Travis former WO2, 17/21L died aged 70 years of age. He was born 27th October 1946 died 14th April 2017 in Malaga Spain. He served with the regiment from 1976-1993 and served in Germany, Northern Ireland, Canada and the Oman. He is sadly, missed by his wife Elaine and his comrades who will always remember his wit hu- mour and friendship.
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REGIMENTAL JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL LANCERS (QUEEN ELIZABETHS’ OWN)
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Obituaries
1968-1991 1944-1947
WO1 (RSM) A Loveland WO2 (RQMS) R Kent Corporal D Turner
Mr AK Foote
Major R Hulton-Harrop
Mr T Addison
Captain CR Lacy-Thompson Corporal D Haywood
Mr N Rhodes
17/21L & QRL 17/21L
9/12L
16/5L
12L and 9/12L 9/12L
9L
16/5L
17/21L
1971-1996 1945-1968 1970-1983 1944-1947
Feb-18 Feb-18 Feb-18 Feb-18 Feb-18 Feb-18 Feb-18 Feb-18
Dec-17 Dec-17 Jan-18 Jan-18 Jan-18 Jan-18 Jan-18 17/21L Jan--18
17/21L 9/12L
1978-1990 1980-2002 1963-1985 1974-1977 1964-1986
1954-1957
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Christopher Pyemont
Christopher Pyemont, who joined the 17th/21st Lancers on a short service commission in 1968, died on 4th May 2017 after a long battle with cancer.
Christopher came to C Squadron in Sennelager from Cam- bridge, where he had acquired a formidable and well-deserved reputation as a sportsman. He had earned a Blue for cricket and for hockey and half Blues for skiing and rackets. He was also an excellent tennis player and hit a golf ball like a pro. It is small wonder that he found little time for academic work and left without taking his degree.
Christopher was an extremely effective troop leader. He was thoroughly professional and competent and his easy charm and modesty at his sporting prowess made him a popular figure throughout the Regiment. When the Regiment left BAOR and C Squadron went to Omagh, he made the switch from tanks to scout cars with ease. The infantry, of course, took the prominent role in Northern Ireland and C Squadron spent long and tedious hours patrolling country areas. But there was plenty of involve- ment in Belfast and Londonderry as well. When it was decreed that the army’s entry into the Bogside in August 1969 should be led by a troop of Ferrets, the Squadron Leader had no hesitation in choosing Christopher’s troop for the task. Needless to say, he did the job superbly well.
He left the Regiment in the summer of 1969 and his final three months were spent on the streets of Belfast. Here he was inevi- tably involved in much aggro, rioting and unpleasantness, all of which he bore with his usual equanimity and good humour.
In civilian life he was, for a while, a stockbroker, but then found his true calling as a school master, becoming Head Master of St Bede’s in Eastbourne. Here he enriched the lives of genera- tions of school children as an inspirational teacher of mathemat- ics and games and as a role model for sporting achievement and modesty. Above all, his belief that life should be fun and his en-
thusiasm for whatever he was doing, endeared him to everyone he met. His long illness was faced with humour and courage and
our condolences go to his wife and to his six children.
PJAM
Major Harold “Harry” Snelling MBE, was born on the 25th May 1919 in Aylesbury, Buckingham- shire. His father was also a military man and served in the hussars. He won a scholarship to the Duke of York School, where he excelled in athletics and had it not been for the second world war, could have been selected for the 1990 or 1994 Olym- pics. After he enlisted in the army at Tidworth in 1937 he joined the 12th
Lancers. In 1939 when war broke out he went to France, and returned in May 1941. In 1944 he went to Egypt, Tobruk, Syria, Lebanon, Italy, Austria and Russia, finally returning to the UK in 1948. After the second world war he served on the General List in Palestine, Korea, Malaysia twice, Scotland and Germany including working in Commonwealth Infantry Brigade. He was presented the MBE in Kuala Lumper by the High Commis- sioner for distinguished services in Korea in 1956. His military career spanned 34 years and he served in three regiments, the 12L, 27L and 9/12L. He retired to Suffolk where he continued to live an active life. He passed away on 3rd June 2017, age 98 from bronchial pneumonia with all his family around him. He is survived by his son John and daughter Diane.
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Captain WRA Birch Reynardson CBE
William “Bill” Birch Reynardson, who has died aged 93, was a soldier, lawyer, City businessman and coun- tryman, with a passion for hunt- ing and opera, serving as a popular chairman of the South Oxfordshire Hunt and chairman of Garsington Opera.
Bill Birch Reynardson was born
on 7th December, 1923. His father, Lieutenant Colonel Henry Birch Reynardson, had been wound- ed at the Battle of Ctesiphon in Mesopotamia in 1915 and after the war worked as military secretary to Lords Athlone and Clar-
Major H Snelling MBE