9th-12th-Lancers - Year 1986 - Page 0016
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| Regiment | 9th/12th Lancers |
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| Year | 1986 |
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THE 9TH/lZTH ROYAL LANCERS REGIMENTAL JOURNAL A Squadron 51m 11‘ mi 26"” Tor Fess A Squadron has this year risen to dizzy heights of success, fun and con- sequently morale. Under the guidance of our newly married but still young at heart Squadron lseaden Major Crotton. we have been on three major exercises. two gunnery camps. plus being very well represented in sports and other activities. All this despite several changes in the upper echelons of the hierarchy. Three Troop Leaders. Ros- kelly, Martin and Crawshay have been replaced by Mr Zeidler and the Bennett/ Righy double act known as Bleep and Booster. The Second in Command, Captain 'Oadget' Wathen has left for Bovington on the Long Armour Infan- try Course and Captain Woodbridge replwes him. The Tiffy, Staff Figgins gave way under the strain to Staff Har- ries. who is apparently enjoying his front line experience. Sergeants Dye. Austin and Hughes have been replaced by Sergeants Reid, Spencer and Row- land. Several Troopers and Corporals have moved on, some interposted and some into civilian life. Trooper Riley, driver extraordinaire. is a notable de- parture after several years of good service. All these changes could have caused a manning crisis but for the guidance of our excellent Sergeant Major Neumann. We played on and certainly tested ' international co—operation in Exercise TRUTZIOE SACHSEN in September. This was a 1st German Panza Division- l ll Manoeuvre Exercise. The Squadron l was attached to 4th Armoured Brigade which in turn was attached to the Cler- rnan Divison. In October we deployed to Exercise Grand Canyon where Mr Righy's 3rd Troop spent three pleasant nights with first Von Metten'nich in his little castle on n hill near Gottingen. They slept in the stables and thought the food excel- lent. All Mr Bennett’s 2nd Troop could manage was a motorway Service Station. The Exercise was interesting but wet; it came to a welcome end at the Spam. plntz of a quiet town called Braden- horn, where we spent a lot of the next few weeks during Exercise Quarter Final. We umpired Quarter Final (Al- though B Squadron displayed more white crosses than we did) assisting the Queen's Royal Irish Hussars and l7th/ 21st Lancers. The radio waves sang with the sound of Sgt Hughes breaking down and drinking tea, Sgt Morgan lost. the Squadron Leader upset and Mr Rigby fighting the wrong side, SQMS Radtord end his team (you think its several men but its really only Trooper Williams) replenished us thro~ ughout n fairly stretched year. Corporal Ducker's recent return to a Scimitar Troop from the Donnington Fire De- partment will be noticed. Corporal ‘Smiler' Smith has taken over as chair- man of the ‘Ruise the Atlantic Con- veyor Committee’. During the year Trooper Currey almost attended an interesting Spanish ‘ Bullfighting Course near Benidorm: Lance Corporal Steam: went to hos- pital for n nose-job and returned with a new brain; Corporal Bllyard slipped on his scalpel during I home surgery |
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