9th-12th-Lancers - Year 1987 - Page 0080
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| Regiment | 9th/12th Lancers |
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| Year | 1987 |
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THE 9TH/lZTH ROYAL LANCERS REGIMENTAL JOURNAL Obituaries Lieutenant Colonel R H Palmer MC Rodney was born in 1907. educated at Harrow and Cambridge. He played cricket for both his School and Uni- versity. He later played for the Army and on occasion for Hampshire. He was a very fast bowler and. I believe, look 5 or 6 wickets for Hampshire against Yorkshire including Holmes, Sutcliffe and Leyland. He joined the 12th Lancers from the University in 1930, played polo and. when stationed at Tidworth and Alder» shot, was Master and Huntsman of the Tedworth Hunt. He commanded A Sqn when the Regiment started in the Desert and then became 21C for the rest of the campaign and was a "Town of Strength’ to me as CO. He earned a very good MC when our Division and the New Zealanders did a left hook at Medinine. He was a first class desert navigator; after the cessation of hostilities with the capture of Tunis he commanded a Beach Group for a short time and. then took the 2nd Derbyshire Yeomanry to Normandy where he was badly wounded in the hand. 73 After the war he went to live at ”as more and became Master of the S Berks Foxhounds. He was frequently asked to judge hounds. He farmed extensively at Peasmore where he entertained his friends and brother officers at his very good shoott A fine shot and a good fisherman, he was a great all round sportsman. He was High Sheriff of Berkshire in 1953. Rodney was a charming, diffident man with a quiet sense of humour and loved a good joke. Unfortunately. the last years of his life were marred by a bad heart and he did not leave Peasmore very much but, still shot locally till the end. He will be very much missed by all his friends and we would like to send our deepest sympathy to his devoted wife Nance who looked after him so wonderfully during the past few years and to his son who is now HM Ambas- sador in Cuba. G] KM Lieutenant Colonel R.S.G Perry D80 DL Stug Perry who died in April was an outstanding leader in the 9th Lancers during the Second World Wart He was greatly admired and respected by all ranks as a first class Regimental Officer. A brilliant rider across country, I learnt so much from watching him out hunting and on the Polo Ground where his speed of reaction to the situation and quickness in making dec- isions, were to make him such a fine wartime leader a few years later. it was in time of war that the great qualities of Stug‘s character were shown at their best. As a Squadron Leader in the 9th Lancers in the Western Desert and then commanding the Lothian and Border Horse towards the end of the campaign in Tunisia, he proved him- self to be an outstanding Commander and was awarded the D50. Finally, during the last two years of the war he had returned to the 9th Lancers, firstly as Second-in-Command and latterly to Command, he had to retrain the Regiment for the battle conditions which we were to encounter nnn—-n>¢~ tram |
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