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30 REGIMENTAL JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL LANCERS (QUEEN ELIZABETHS’ OWN) Headquarters Squadron
 2017 has been another exciting year and the Squadron should be immensely proud of their achievements. The Regiment’s annual trip to armoured ranges was spread for the Sabre Squad- rons over three weeks at Castlemartin. For Headquarters Squad- ron and the ‘G4’ chain, ranges presents an excellent opportu- nity to run-out and refine our procedures whilst supporting the Regiment. For four weeks the chain worked tirelessly to deploy the Regiment, facilitate the ranges and recover the Regiment in good order. The Squadron achieved their aim as was highlight- ed by the Commanding Officer.
The Regimental family weekend was celebrated in mid-June. In true Lancer form, the Regiment grasped the opportunity to host the Old Comrades Association and display how the Regiment has gone from strength to strength over the past two years. The weekend started with an athletics day and on a rare sunny Sat- urday in Catterick where all the Squadrons entered the gladiato- rial arena of the Catterick athletics field. Headquarters Squadron displayed their athletic prowess and were crowned The Royal Lancers Athletics champions for 2017. The Old Comrades As- sociation and Regiment then enjoyed a social evening swapping
Headquarter Squadron’s cross-country team look like they’ve worked hard
Chefs at the Christmas cake competition
stories of their time in the Regiment and how the Regiment now operates. The highlight of the weekend was the Sunday parade when the Regiment and the Old Comrades Association said good bye to the antecedent Regiments’ Guidons and officially welcomed the new Guidon.
The summer was dominated by Exercise NORTHERN LANC- ER, this was a full Regimental deployment including exercising all of the echelons. The Exercise covered a lot of Northern Eng- land and Southern Scotland. We headed out on a cold Catterick afternoon, but after a few days the weather picked up and we enjoyed warm weather for the remainder of the exercise. Being resourceful reconnaissance soldiers there was not much sleeping under canvas. The liaison team worked hard to find farmers’ barns for Squadrons to hide their vehicles and live in during the maintenance days. The kindness of the farmers was remarkable. There are tales knocking around of 10 people from a Squadron being invited in to a farmer’s house for dinner – absolutely no alcohol was consumed. Battlegroup Headquarters had a meal cooked for them by a farmer’s wife (over 40 people were fed)! The exercise was a great opportunity to train outside of the nor-
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