9th-12th-Lancers - Year 1987 - Page 0032
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| Regiment | 9th/12th Lancers |
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| Year | 1987 |
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THE 9TH/IZTH ROYAL LANCERS REGIMENTAL JOURNAL SHQ Troop Cpl Stunnell took over from Sgt Duff; Cpl Woods moved to a Sabre Tp as have LCpl Lenihan and LCpl Powell, whilst LCpl Radbourne left for support troop thinking this would mean more windsurfing and skiing, We also lost Cpl McGann to RHQ, LCpl Cunningham to Cyprus and Tpr Adams to eivvy street. Cpl Joyce joined the troop and now keeps the waggons rolling. Tpr Holley holds the record for hours on guard, whilst Tpr Gelsv thorpe was so busy keeping everyone else fit. he forgot to look after himselt'r Admin Troop As in previous years we had our annual pilgrimage to the South of Germany to carry out regimental training. This year. as we did not have our own Stalwart driver, SSgt Eddie Edwards was drafted in to fill the slot. He must be the highest paid POL driver in the Army. After a 14 hour road journey for the Admin Road Party the first task was to find a shop that could supply us with 270 bread rolls a day This worked fine for the first few days until we started to move around the area and could not then order them in advance. Tpr Collins gave a new meaning to the phase ‘fast food' when one morning, while frying eggs, he spill water into the frying pan and incinerated the eggs in two seconds flat! LCpl Williams was our sausage cooking expert — the trouble was he ate them as fast as he cooked them, Tpr Holmes is the ‘Scarlet Pimpernel' of the Troop: when there is work to be done, he can never be found, Our first replen saw the normally placid SSgt Edwards throwing full jerrycans of petrol at people when Tpr Gillies drove his Scimitar up the side of the stalwart Once back in Wolfenbiittel, the vehicles cleaned and serviced, it was on to Summer working hours which gave us plenty of opportunities for swimming and windsurfing at Salzgitter and admiring the topless frauleins. JD The Autumn exercise will be remem» bered for the number of replens we did — no sooner had we filled our pods up, we were off again on another replen. Tpr Collins did a great job of bogging the Stalwart when the bank of a drainage ditch gave way. It was lucky the Stalwart did not turn over, Most of the exercise we were supposed to have been co-localed with Tiffy Smith, if only we'd known where he was, Exer- cise over and it was back to camp to prepare for the handover and then back to the UK to which everybody was looking forward. SSgt Frost has now gone to run the Sgts' Mess, and has been replaced by SSgt Hudson, Cpl Franklin is now the Post NCO and his place has been taken by Cpl Leggatl. Tpr Clarke joined the troop in place of Tpr Holmes who moved to 3Tmop, SHQ searching for the OC‘s chocolate +“—i |
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