9th-12th-Lancers - Year 2006 - Page 0064
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| Regiment | 9th/12th Lancers |
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| Year | 2006 |
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62 REGIMENTAL JOURNAL OF THE 9TH/12TH ROYAL LANCERS (PRINCE OF WALES’S) Refurbishment 8: Upgrade of Schloss Bredebeck he Bredebeck estate is the youngest of the Lohheide estates. In 1946 the brothers Gebherd and Kurt Von Bothmer, sold the estate, then called Bredtbeck, to Heinrick Otto and Lambert Von Dageforde. The Schloss was built in 1902 by Helberg; the then owner. The building has been used as an Officers’ Mess since 1945. Its first inhabitants were the 5th Royal Tank Regiment. Refurbishment construction work begun on 7 Nov 05 and was completed in Nov 06. The initial work carried out on the Officers’ Mess was the upgrading of fire precautions. Fire doors were installed throughout the building, each door with 6mm safety glass, giving a 20minute compartment protection capabil- ity. The alarm system was also replaced with high sensitive smoke detection equipment. The second phase of the build was to bring the kitchen into the 21st century. The kitchen is now a modern state of the art facility, and is more akin to what you would find in a top class hotel. The basement directly below the kitchen, which was dead space, has been transformed into a sanitised storage area, with enhanced access and climate control, for ease of use and optimum storage. After a long period of dis- ruption the Officers’ Mess now looks better then ever. The con- The refurbished Kitchen. tractors have managed to carry out the essential work, without detracting from the history and character of the building, ensur- ing that Schloss Bredebeck is a suitable and viable Officers’ Mess for future generations. CMK Royal Yeomanry Annual Camp In amongst the million and one other things that have happened since our return from the Gulf, 12 members of the Regiment found time to take 6 of our CVR (T) Spartans down to Sennelager to aid and abet our ‘Civilian’ colleagues in the Royal Yeomanry. Lt Lloyd Owen led the charge out the gates from Hohne, assisted bril- liantly by the logistical genius of ZLt Tapping and Sgt Howard, as well as a composite Troop from across the Regiment; very quickly we found ourselves in the NATO Officers’ and Sgts’ Messes respec- tively. Now, individually, the Territorials that we had in Iraq were extremely capable and motivated people — stemming mainly from the fact that most of them were more qualified, in civilian terms, than the majority of the Officers. Collectively, the Royal Yeomanry were every bit as willing and enthusiastic as their counterparts dur- ing TELIC 7 and as a result we had a great time. The first couple of days, we were doing our level best to try and make their ranges and section attacks a little more realistic and fun. Problems arose when we were asked to provide GPMG fire support from our Spartan: although all the wagons had had pre-firing checks completed on them before we left from Hohne, it was the their qualified blokes for firing crews, and our wagons that worked we were able to produce a little bit of covering fire from the cupo- la, about which CO Royal Yeomanry got frightfully excited! We then moved into more of an FTX phase. Their three Squadrons disappeared off into Squadron AOs in the northern end of the Sennelager area, and were allocated a couple of Spartan each. Of course, being foot troops they had no immediate means of trans- portation, which meant that we suddenly became their only means of moving around their respective AO, heli—bedford became heli- spartan. Resultantly, 9/12L spent the next three days on the move. No matter — a few scrapes, bumps, IEDs and fire fights later, 9/12L tactfully and tactically removed themselves from the battle and tracked back to camp for our rail move back to Hohne. May I take this opportunity to thank the Royal Yeomanry for the help, G4 assistance and general good humour and banter; it made all of us feel very welcome. It also provided a couple of ‘nig’ troop- ers and 1 x officer a very useful week of living out of a CVR (T) as well as reminding the rest of us what fun ‘blatting around the ooohlou’ can be! personnel manning them that hadn’t. So, with a mix and match of ELO Battlefield Study Tours The Cavalry and Guards Club ‘ 127 Piccadilly Coach Groups - Self Drive Minibus Groups London W1] 7PX Ypres Messines Passchendaele Somme Vimy Cambrai Dunkirk Normandy Arnhem Rhine Crossing Principles of War ' Core Values ' Doctrine ' Tactics Leadership Logistics 5.: Communications Terrain Tel: 01244 340777 Web: warlonrs.cum Galina International Battlefield Tours 40 Bridge Street Row Chester CH1 INN ’ Oflicml' Tour Opel-arms la the Normandy Vereram'zlssocranon The Cavalry and Guards Club has one of the finest Edwardian Buildings in London with stunning views of Green Park that is ideal for: Weddings ° Receptions ° Dinner Parties Business Meetings ° Lunches For firrther details and information please contact our Banqueting Co—ordinator on: Telephone: 020 7659 0905 Fax: 020 7495 5956 www.cavgds.co.uk |
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