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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.............................................5 Looking Forward – The Training and Readiness Years.........6 Regimental Diary.......................................................................7 The Presentation of the Guidon of the Royal Lancers (Queen
Elizabeths’ Own) ................................................................10 Her Majesty The Queen’s 90th Birthday Celebrations.........12
‘... RL We The Baddies?’ ....................................................... 13 The Only Way is Wessex .........................................................18 A Brit abroad – On Exchange to the Strathconas ................. 20 Cambrian Patrol ....................................................................... 21 Strike experimentation: the enemy’s perspective.................22 Exercise HODSON’S HORSE................................................23 Supporting our Eastern Allies ................................................23 Final Fling................................................................................24 Snipers on the Prairie .............................................................. 25 Exercise BOCAGE LANCER ................................................26 A Squadron...............................................................................29 B Squadron ...............................................................................32 C Squadron: a good year to die hard ...................................... 34 D Squadron...............................................................................36 Headquarter Squadron ............................................................39 The Light Aid Detachment ................................................... 40 AGC(SPS) Detachment ..........................................................41 Kømmand Trüppe - Of propagation and precipitation ........ 42 Quartermaster Technical Department ...................................43 Quartermasters Department ...................................................44 Motorised Transport Troop ..................................................... 45 The Training Wing ..................................................................46 Catering Department...............................................................46 Regimental Welfare Office ......................................................47 The Officers’ Mess ...................................................................48 The Warrant Officers’ and Sergeants’ Mess...........................50 The Corporals’ Mess ................................................................ 51
Sports and Adventurous Training ........................................53
Exercise Yamnuska Lancer – the OPFOR go Adventuring.53 Exercise HAUTE LANCER – Lancers in the snow.............55 Exercise BREVANT LANCER .............................................. 56 Exercise ROUGHTRACK LANCER .................................... 57 Alpine Skiing............................................................................58 Nordic Lancer 16 ..................................................................... 59 Exercise SHUTTLECOCK LANCER .................................. 61 Regimental Boxing...................................................................62 Football ..................................................................................... 64 Exercise TEXAN LANCER....................................................65 Hockey ......................................................................................67 Cricket in the Royal Lancers ..................................................67 Orienteering.............................................................................. 68 Powerlifting .............................................................................. 69 Marathon du Médoc.................................................................69
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Contents
Marathon de la Liberté et la Pegasus Semi-Marathon ......... 70 Polo in Mongolia......................................................................71 Royal Lancers Equestrianism ................................................. 72 Grand Military 2017 ................................................................73 The Melton Hunt Club Ride...................................................74 Field Sports...............................................................................74 Carp Fishing.............................................................................75 Martial Arts in The Royal Lancers ........................................ 76 Snorkels, Funny Hats And Neoprene... A Perfect Day Out76 Royal Lancer MAMILS ..........................................................77 Golf ............................................................................................ 79 The Royal Lancers Enduro Team 2016..................................79 Devizes to Westminster International Canoe Race...............80
ERE ...........................................................................................81
Dispatches from NATO...........................................................81 Defence Hub Duqm, Oman .................................................... 82 Operation TRAMAL: UK support to the United Nations
Support Mission in Libya..................................................83 SO1 Fighting Vehicle Systems................................................84 – Defence Science and Technology Laboratories..................84 The Centre for Historical Analysis and Conflict Analysis...84 The Wolf howls one last time..................................................85 Playing Большая Игра in Central Asia...................................86 California to Riyadh – The US National Training Centre to
Saudi Arabia........................................................................87 Deputy Chief CJ33 NATO Operation Resolute Support ..... 88 The Devizes to Westminster Canoe Marathon......................89 Mentioned not in dispatches but in Parliament ................... 90 Land Adviser to NATO’s Maritime Component Command92 The Permanent Joint Headquarters ....................................... 92 CGS’s Outer Office...................................................................93 Sandhurst in the Holy Lands: ...............................................94 the Palestinian Officer Academy ............................................ 94 Life at RATD............................................................................95 Recruiting Group ..................................................................... 96 SO2 ISTAR and Defence Engagement, 11th Infantry
Brigade................................................................................. 97 Army Foundation College Harrogate.....................................97 Stand By Your Beds! ................................................................ 98 Operation ORBITAL, February – August 2016....................99 Crisis Communications in the Nigerian Tri-Border Region100 The Royal Lancers Tactical Air Control Party....................101 Operations Officer, RACTR .................................................. 102 Screamers in the Back............................................................103 Three years in the wilderness:..............................................105 ERE at the Defence Cultural Specialist Unit ...................... 105
Allied and Affiliated..............................................................107
Life in Northern Canada, Lord Strathcona’s Horse (Royal Canadians) Year in Review – 2016 .................................. 107 Brewers’ Company 2016 ........................................................108
100 Squadron..........................................................................109 D Battery, 3 Royal Horse Artillery ....................................... 110 King’s School Combined Cadet Force.................................111 Uppingham School Combined Cadet Force........................112 B Squadron of Leicestershire Northamptonshire and Rutland
Army Cadet Force (LNR ACF).......................................113 LNR Cadets pay tribute on battlefield tour experience......115 Suffolk ACF............................................................................116 Ex-Lancer Drive 2016 - Australian Army Cadet Force......117
Home Headquarters .............................................................119
HHQ Support to OCA Functions and Events.....................120 The Royal Lancers Old Comrades’ Association..................122 ‘Veteran Lancers’....................................................................122 Patron’s Lunch ....................................................................... 123 Aliwal Dinner 2017................................................................125 Canterbury South East Branch (Omdurman Troop) .......... 126 9/12L The Last Smoker 2016................................................127 Band of the 17th /21st Lancers ............................................. 127 Remembrance Sunday 2016 .................................................128 Cenotaph London .................................................................. 128 East Midlands Branch (Fondouk Troop).............................130 Southern Branch ...................................................................130 Northern Branch....................................................................131 Stoke Branch (Aliwal Troop) ................................................131 North West Branch (Balaclava Troop)..................................132 OCA out and about... ............................................................. 133 Museum Report for Regimental Museum of the 9th/12th Royal
Lancers (Prince of Wales’s) .............................................134 Archive of 16th/5th The Queen’s Royal Lancers at the Stoke- on-Trent Record Office.....................................................135
B Squadron, 16th/5th Lancers Service in the Canal Zone, January to April 1952.......................................................136
The Queen’s Royal Lancers & Nottinghamshire Yeomanry Museum ............................................................................. 137 RSM David Spence VC – 9th Queen’s Royal Lancers........138 Schloss Bredebeck..................................................................139 Mission Stefan........................................................................140
Obituaries ...............................................................................141
In Memoriam..........................................................................141 New Releases from Home Headquarters... ..........................151 Regimental Gazette................................................................152 Births ......................................................................................158 Marriages ................................................................................ 158
Valete.......................................................................................159
The Royal Lancers Officers’ Dinner held at the Cavalry & Guards Club 8th December 2016....................................162 Honours and Awards ............................................................. 164
 The Chapka, The Annual Journal of The Royal Lancers, is published on behalf of the Regiment by: Crest Publications, 1 Rothwell Grange Court, Rothwell Road, Kettering, Northants NN16 8FB. Tel : 01536 317000 email: jayne@crestpublications.com www.crestpublications.com
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