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REGIMENTAL JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL LANCERS (QUEEN ELIZABETHS’ OWN)
   REGIMENTAL JOURNAL OF
THE ROYAL LANCERS (QUEEN ELIZABETHS’ OWN)
Editor: Major NA Foot-Tapping • Assistant Editor: Major (Retd) PA Watson @TheRoyalLancers • Facebook.com/TheRoyalLancers
  Colonel of the Regiment’s Foreword........................................3 Commanding Officer’s Foreword.............................................4 Looking Forward ....................................................................... 5 Regimental Diary.......................................................................6 Overview of the Training Year .................................................. 8 Divisional Re(con)naissance...................................................10 Centenary of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission 12 The Royal Lancers and Her Majesty’s Ship Prince of Wales13 Exercise LONG LOOK – A Strathcona on exchange with
The Royal Lancers ............................................................. 14 The Regimental ‘Loya Jirga’...................................................14 Operation TOSCA Pre-Deployment Training ...................... 15 The Regimental Weekend ....................................................... 16 Anti-tank Troop Training in the Regiment ..........................20 A Squadron...............................................................................21 B Squadron ...............................................................................24 C Squadron ..............................................................................25 D Squadron...............................................................................28 Headquarters Squadron...........................................................30 Command Troop.......................................................................32 Light Aid Detachment ...........................................................33 The Royal Lancers AGC (SPS) Detachment.........................34 The Quartermaster’s Department .......................................... 35 The Quartermaster Technical’s Department.........................36 Motor Transport Troop............................................................38 The Training Wing ..................................................................38 The Royal Lancers’ Catering Department ............................39 The Welfare Office ................................................................... 40 The Corporals’ Mess ................................................................ 41 The Officers’ Mess ...................................................................42 The Warrant Officers’ and Sergeants’ Mess...........................44
Sports and Adventurous Training ........................................45
Babington Shield......................................................................45 The Peto Cup............................................................................47 Hockey ...................................................................................... 48 Football ..................................................................................... 48 Royal Lancers Rugby...............................................................49 Orienteering and Cross-country Running.............................50 Royal Lancers Cricket .............................................................50 Royal Lancer Polo....................................................................51 Mountain Biking......................................................................52 Exercise ALPINE LANCER 17/18 ........................................ 54 Exercise NORDIC LANCER 17/18 .......................................56 Exercise SHUTTLECOCK LANCER .................................. 58 Field Sports...............................................................................59 Royal Lancers Equestrianism ................................................. 60 Italian Cavalry Championships ..............................................61 The Melton Hunt Club Ride...................................................62 Swimming and Water Polo......................................................62 Martial Arts ..............................................................................63 Golf ............................................................................................ 63
Third Edition
Contents
Powerlifting .............................................................................. 64 Exercise LEDRA LANCER....................................................65 Exercise FREEWHEELING LANCER 2017.......................66 Exercise Southern Italy Orienteering Festival (SIOF)
Lancer..................................................................................67 Exercise BLUE LANCER.......................................................68
Extra Regimental Employment.............................................69
Defence Hub Duqm, Oman .................................................... 69 AMISOM Mission Support Team – Mentoring the African
Union mission in Somalia ................................................. 70 Defence’s ‘one deep’ Cultural Property
Protection capability ....................................................... 72 From the Ridiculous to the Sublime: 2017 – A Year of
Contrasts.............................................................................. 74 Land Systems – Defence Science and Technology
Laboratories ........................................................................ 75 ‘Soldier scholar’? A lancer on academic placement..............75 Army Headquarters – in the Search for
New Training Areas ..................................................... 76 The Permanent Joint Headquarters ....................................... 77 Officer Commanding C Squadron The Household
Cavalry Regiment ............................................................... 78 Apache Helicopter Force.........................................................79 United Nations Peace Support Training, Brazil....................80 Burning holes in the Sky – Ground Liaison Officer 12(B) Sqn
and SO3 Air Land Integration Operation SHADER ..... 81 A Year at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe......82
Allied and Affiliated................................................................84
HMS Prince of Wales ..............................................................84 D Battery – 3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery ................. 85 100 Squadron Royal Air Force................................................86 Lord Strathcona’s Horse (Royal Canadians)
– A Year in Review..............................................................88 2017 – A year of Operational Engagement for the 1er
Régiment d’Infanterie de Marine .....................................90 The Brewers’ Company ...........................................................91 New Releases from Home Headquarters... ............................91
Affiliated Army and Combined Cadet Forces ....................92
The King’s School Combined Cadet Force...........................92 Uppingham School Combined Cadet Force .........................93 2 Squadron – Lincolnshire Army Cadet Force ..................... 94 B Squadron – Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland
Army Cadet Force ..............................................................95 Barton Detachment E Company – Humberside and South
Yorkshire Army Cadet Force.............................................96 Stoke Detachment – Staffordshire Army Cadet Force ......... 96 Ipswich Detachment – Suffolk Army Cadet Force...............97 Uttoxeter Detachment – Staffordshire and West Midlands
Army Cadet Force ..............................................................97
Home Headquarters ...............................................................98
Home Headquarters Sponsored Functions and Events ....... 98 Regimental Weekend at Catterick ........................................ 100 Cavalry Memorial Parade ...................................................... 101 The Royal Lancer Old Comrades Association Gathering
at the National Memorial Arboretum.............................102 Regimental Association Welfare Support to Ex-Lancers ... 102 Field of Remembrance – Westminster Abbey.....................103 Remembrance Sunday Cenotaph..........................................104 16th/5th Queen’s Royal Lancers Old Comrades ................. 104 17th/21st Lancers (Death or Glory Boys) Old Comrades ..105
Museums and Historical......................................................105
The Royal Lancers Museum Trust.......................................105 Museum Report for the Regimental Museum of the 9th/12th
Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales’s)...................................106 The Queen’s Royal Lancers and Nottinghamshire Yeomanry Museum ............................................................................. 107
Overview of Other Ranks Collar Badges of the 16th/5th Queen’s Royal Lancers.....................................................108
The Victoria Cross action at Bourlon Wood
28-29th November 1917...................................................110
Maysaan 10th Anniversary Dinner – ‘M10’ ........................112 Ypres Remembrance, 17/21L Group....................................113
RLOCA and Branches .........................................................113
OCA ‘Out and About’ ............................................................114 The Royal Lancers (Queen Elizabeths’ Own) Old Comrades’ Association ........................................................................ 115
The Band Branch of the 17th/21st Lancers.........................116 The 17th/21st Lancers (Death or Glory Boys) Veterans’
Facebook Group ...............................................................116 Canterbury South East Branch (Omdurman Troop) .......... 117 East Midlands Branch (Fondouk Troop).............................118 Northern Branch....................................................................119 North West Branch (Balaclava Troop) .................................119 Southern Branch ..................................................................120 Stoke Branch (Aliwal Troop).................................................120 The Aliwal Dinner 2018........................................................121 Tank Man: Each a Knight.....................................................122 In Memoriam..........................................................................122
Obituaries ...............................................................................123
Regimental Gazette................................................................130 Officers at Extra Regimental Employment..........................134 Soldiers at ERE ......................................................................136 Births ....................................................................................... 137 Marriages ................................................................................ 137 List of Attendees Officers Dinner 2017 ............................... 138 Honours and Awards ............................................................. 140
 The Chapka, the annual journal of The Royal Lancers, is published on behalf of the Regiment by: Crest Publications, 12 Brooklands Court, Kettering Venture Park, Kettering, Northants NN15 6FD. Tel: 01536 317000 • jayne@crestpublications.com • www.crestpublications.com
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