9th-12th-Lancers - Year 1960 - Page 0015
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| Regiment | 9th/12th Lancers |
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| Year | 1960 |
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THl: lX/Xll ROYAL LANCERS REGIMENTAL JOURNAL l7 CauntL-r as the Saracen drivers. The only trouble is that living next duur to each other. they like to go on leave together—thereby immobilising S.H.Q.—not that that matters much 1 [n the sporting line we are very pleased with ourselves. We won the Cross Country Running Cup and produced 5 out of 8 members of the Regimental Team, with L/Cpl. Watts coming in first for un- Regie ment. We were joint runners-up in the Squadron Boxing, and in spite of only having one member of the Regimental Football Team (Tpr. Wilson). nearly beat “HQ." Squadron in the Squadron Football League— in fact beating them 11—2 in one match and being defeated overall by one point. We also had the only trotvp of a Sahte Squadron in the Semi-Final of the Inter-Troop Football and the Final of the Basket Bull Cumpetition. We were second out of 16 teams in the Northern Ireland Command .22 Competie “r us 'A‘ touaatw At: or; «A sum: mm Amwl " tion and were very successful in thc Regie mental Rifle Meeting. winning the Squadrnn Shield. Wt: also won the Rifle, Bren Gun Pairs, the Orheers S.M.G.. and the Sergeants Sill/LG. competitions. L/Cpl. Williams won the trophy for the best shot in the Corporals' Mess. We also won the falling plate competir ttnn. One of Ireland‘s Natiunal Sports seems to be dancing. and Omagh produces dances as ulten as it rains, which is frequently. Private ears are appearing fast in the Squadron Car Park and there are few dances within a fifty mile radius which have not been Visited. In fact we have not yet secured any Irish wives. although this situation is highly fluid ! We go down [0 Castle Archdale in June. and this move to the outpost is eagerly awaited. The summer dawn there should be great fun, if we have a summer. and we lonk forward to fishing and boating, on Lough little, with perhaps a little water Ski-log thrown in “C” SQUADRON NOTES NC" SQUADRON were lucky to find that they were selected to he the detached Squadron at Castle Archdale, Co. Fermanagh, when the Regiment moved to Ireland. Only a short time remained before we left I'idwtlrth, to build up the private army, but somehow it was managed and early in October all NO were installed in our new surroundings. It is difficult to describe the Camp. Some sny it looks like a cluster of blackened mush- rooms surrounded by wire, others have passed it by withuut realising that it was occupied. Taken by and large, once inside the gates. it was not [00 had and each troop soon set too to make their Niscn huts warm and cheerful and tons of paint must have been used. Lack of space was the main problem and the cookhouse became the Centre of all activi- ties with canteen, cinema, T.V. room and |
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