9th-12th-Lancers - Year 1987 - Page 0025
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| Regiment | 9th/12th Lancers |
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| Year | 1987 |
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3rd Troop Another solid year for 3 Troop, having stayed much the same for some time. We achieved only a disappointing 41h place on Troop tests in Bavaria. but morale in the team remained unshaken as we departed to Italy on Ex ROMAN HUSSAR. which. in retrospect, was bigger than BenAHur. All the troop funds disappeared one night on pizza and gopping red wine 7 which Tpr Duff saw again later that evening. Umpiring GRAND CANYON was enjoyable. Tpr Aslin especially enjoyed the company of Miss Rowlands who was monitoring his “stress factors". She was swiftly despatched to D Squad- ron. ETERNAL TRIANGLE was very slow going in the tiny area allotted lo 19 Infantry Brigade. This precipitated extreme bouts of refreshment in Mars- berg and Badenfeld. Tpr Wright‘s “savoir faire" with the local female population must be noted. Congratulations to Mrs Sterenberg and Mrs Crofts who have both produced daughters this year: Lisa and Amy. Sad to say the old team is now breaking up. Cpl Crofts departs to I Troop. Cpl Filler to Catterick. and Lt Wilson soon goes into honourable retirement after four years unbroken service with the troop. Good luck to Tpr Hill who joins his wife Andrea in Germany, and to Tpr “Charles" Chadwick who left on a high note. SP Troop We started the year with a very successful troop training period. during which we operated closely with A Sqn’s Support Troop. There were a few Changes in manning prior to Troop Tests. LCpl Rainey departed under protest to SHQ as the new medic. His first job was to help patch up Tpr Willis, who discovered he wasn‘t Super- man after all, when attempting to fly out of the back window of a Gastatte. THE 9TH/IZTH ROYAL LANCERS REGIMENTAL JOURNAL 3 To. “1 don‘t know whether lhey frighten the enemy but, by God they terrify me. (Duke ofWelljngton.Ex12Ll) “I said only one sausage!" Cpl Taff Draper controlling his cook, To ‘01' Willis |
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