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Year 2003
Transcription 2 REGIMENTAL JOURNAL OF THE 9TH/12TH ROYAL LANCERS (PRINCE OF WALES’S)
THE DELHI SPEARMAN
REGIMENTAL JOURNAL OF
THE 9TH/ 12TH ROYAL LANCERS (PRINCE OF WALES’S)
Editors: Maior JR Gasson-Hargreaves and Captain J Hardy
Volume XI No. 6
CONTENTS
Foreword by the Colonel of the Regiment .............. 3 Regimental Sport
Foreword by the Commanding Officer .................. 4 Ski Ham 2002/3 .................................. 53
Regimental Diary ................................... 5 W02 Andy Thomas - a Regimental footballer’s career ..... 54
A Squadron ...... . . 9 Polo ............................................ 55
B Squadron . . . . . 15 Stables .......................................... 56
C Squadron ......... . . . 22 Climbing ....... . . . 56
Headquarter Squadron .............................. 29 Seaoiew Regatta .................................. 5 6
Here and There .................................... 36 1421133117411 ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 57
Officers’ Mess ...................... - - - 38 joint Services Parachute Centre (Netheraoon) ........... 57
Warrant Officers’ and Sergeants’ Mess ................ 39
Corporals’ Mess ................................... 40 Obituary, ch1 Robert (Paddy) O’Brien ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 58
EX STILETTO LANCER . ... 41
The Mightiest Wives - - - - - - 42 Home Headquarters ................................ 59
With Camera to War - a Media Ops Staff Officer . . . . 43 Old Comrades Association , , , , 60
Armoured Trials and Development Unit ............... 45 Obituaries ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, , , , 6l
Digitisation ' is tomorrow’s soldier a computer geek? - - - - 46 9111/12th Lancers (Prince of Wales’s) Charitable Association . . 67
MiHiStTY 0f Defence - ill the eye 0f the storm ------ - - - 47 Regimental Museum ............................... 68
The Royal Yeomanry ............................... 48 Officers’ Regimental Dinner ......................... 69
Regimental Recruiting .............................. 49 Annual Report of the Band of the
RAC Training Squadron - - - 50 9th Queen’s Royal Lancers .......................... 69
HQ 1(UK) Recce Bde . .. . .. 51 Old Comrades Out & About ......................... 70
A Fishy Tale that led to a Fox’s Head ................. 51 Martin Hunter - The life and letters of a Subaltern
Command Support Development (CSD) BOWMAN . . . . 52 in World WarI ..................................... 73
Trooper Adam Slater’s name added to
Felstead Village War Memorial ....................... 52 Regimental Gazette ................................ 75
9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales’s), Haig Barracks, BFPO 30
Front Cover: A Squadron Public Order Training.
ImMeFumt: Laying Up afthe 0a Guam, Derby. L to R: W02 (RS W0) mime, W01 (RSM) Barnett, W02 (RQMS (7)) German, W02 (RQMS(T)) Helm.
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