9th-12th-Lancers - Year 2002 - Page 0077
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| Regiment | 9th/12th Lancers |
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| Year | 2002 |
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REGIMENTAL JOURNAL OF THE 9TH/12TH ROYAL LANCERS (PRINCE OF WALES’S) 75 Officers’ Regimental Dinner The Officers Regimental Dinner was held on Wednesday 20th November 2002 those in attendance are shown below. Brigadier HWK Pye Major General GMG Swindells Brigadier M] Rutledge Colonel M ff Woodhead Colonel AP Gilks Colonel DHSL Maitland-Titterton Lieutenant Colonel DA St G Laurie Lieutenant Colonel A] Clark Kennedy Lieutenant Colonel The Lord Crofton Lieutenant Colonel R] Mackaness Lieutenant Colonel ]M Martin Lieutenant Colonel PGF Lort-Phillips Lieutenant Colonel NC Everard Lieutenant Colonel RA Charrington Lieutenant Colonel NMT Stafford Lieutenant Colonel AM Abraham Lieutenant Colonel CR Mason Lieutenant Colonel ARFNZ Twickel Major ARF Arkwright Major MHS Ayshford Sanford Major KL Bannister Major AC Brodey Major GG Brown Major GA Charrington Major RM Collins Major ]A Farrer Major W]O Fooks Major DM Goggs Major MML Hudson Major A] ]ones Major DR Pritchard Major TP Robinson Major MC Wilkinson Major GV Woyka Captain PR Baty Captain GR Bellamy Captain ]R Campbell-Barnard Captain GI Campbell-Collins Captain AM Carpenter Captain GDH Clifford Captain P Corcoran Captain C Croft Captain NS Croft Captain SM Crofts Captain D Denton Captain SP Doherty Captain MD Everett Captain ]E] Fuller Captain ]R Gasson-Hargreaves Captain CW Going Captain CD Glyn-]ones Captain SP Hardy Captain ]V Haviland Captain G]F Hood Captain CR Lacey-Thompson Captain HPF Lott-Phillips Captain ]MG Lumsden Captain TSD Lyle Captain ]ID Matheson Captain HI Meynell Captain NAH Milne Home Captain CCF Naylor Captain PH Norman Captain ]W Parry Captain NC Pease Captain CBR Preston Captain ]A Prodger Captain AL Reed Captain DG Rhodes Captain KM Russell Captain ONG Scholte Captain AEB Simpson Captain APD Stuart Captain SE Thomassen-Kinsey Captain P Vale Captain MG Wall Captain The Hon M Wyndham ]F St G Airey Esq CES Cherry Esq The Count de Grandy C Heneage Esq P]S Lumsden ]G Nash Esq ES Nelson Esq Reverend Canon WB Norman Dr RL Orcutt M]M Ovens Esq DEH Panter Esq DC Watney Esq ] Miles Esq Lt MG Eyre-Brook Lt HG Simpson 2Lt S] Clitheroe Queen Mother Remembered My memory of the Queen Mum as she was affectionately known in my old regiment 9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales’s) was in 1965 whilst I was stationed in Germany. As Colonel in Chief, Her Majesty came to visit Her Regiment on its 250th anniversary. At the time, I was a lowly trooper working with the regiment’s polo ponies. We were told we could have a day off as Her Majesty would not want to see the ponies. Wrong. We received a telephone call from our officer, Captain Cochrane-Dyet telling us to “Get the ponies up here on the double as the Queen Mum wants to see them”. As we were 5 kms from the barracks, panic set in but we managed to get the ponies lined up for the Royal Inspection. In the confusion I took hold of two Argentinean polo ponies which had only arrived two days earlier. I was introduced to Her Majesty and after asking where I came from and how long I had been in the regiment she asked me the names of the ponies. I told her the name of the first pony ‘Vidlida’ but could not remember the name of the second one. This was the classic case ofme wanting the earth to open up and swallow me up. The CO, Lieutenant Colonel ]M Brockbank MC said “It’s Sierra isn’t it Smith!”. I said “Yes Colonel, Sierra” and stood there red faced and very embarrassed. The royal party moved on and after they had moved on about 15ft, the Queen Mum stopped, came back and whispered in my ear. Afterwards a lot of people wanted to know what she had said as they had never seen me smile so broadly before! Her Majesty’s actual words were “Never mind Trooper Smith these Argentinean names are a bugger to remember”. This story was published in a special 80th birthday book produced by the London Evening News and I received a beautiful book about the Queen Mum with an accompanying letter from the editor saying Her Majesty remembered the incident very well. A lovely memory of a lovely lady. When the CO asked me what Her Majesty had said, I did pull the CO’s leg by telling him that Her Majesty had mentioned promotion! Edward ] Smith |
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