9th-12th-Lancers - Year 1986 - Page 0022
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| Regiment | 9th/12th Lancers |
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| Year | 1986 |
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THE 9TH/12TH ROYAL l ANCERS RFGIMENTAL JOURNAL PubOF . warm“ vwv. Major Burgess and Cpl Warren with their victim — a Tpr of4/7 no ,,,, luckily he failedl On the other side of the ferry crossing ii Brigade‘s efforts were being thwarted by “A/RMPS" from B Squadron who were busy “re- routing”the traffic. During the main FFX itself, B Squadron remained, by request. under command of ii Armoured Brigade. We operated for the main part against 30 Armoured Brigade which consisted of The Blues and Royals. 4/7DG, a mechanised battalion and iS/lEH act- ing as their recce forcei To chronicle all the amusing incidents on this exercise would take the full magazine. Suffice to say that B Squadron proved efficient and dangerous. Particular highlights WCYCI at The collection of a bottle of whisky from the Commanding Officer for spotting all the enemy bridgelayers. b, Our stay-behind 0? Line and our subsequent successful extraction across an undetected fordt c. The re-routing of 20 Armoured Brigade complete. by LCpl Noone ”RMP”. d. The capture of a Squadron of RHQ/D in their night ieaguer. e. The ambush of Close Reece Troop 4/7 DG by SHQ outside our Gasthaus “hide". We were rewarded by a visit from Brigadier Wheeler in the field at the end of the exercise and by Commander Armour. Brigadier Hayman Joyce. on our return to Barracks December Gunnery Camp On return from Exercise QUARTER FINAL, we threw ourselves immediately into preparations for Regimental Gun- nery Camp in the beginning of Decem— ber. Once again SSgt Palfreyman co- ordinated Squadron training with great efficiency. The high turnover of crews. due to promotions and postings how- ever. meant that it was a very different Squadron that was firing at Hohne to the last time. At least half the Com- manders were new and virtually three quarters of the gunners had not fired before. It was an uphill struggle for the few Gunnery instructors we had in the Squadron. At the end of the month we were as well prepared as we could bel The FMR Competition on 25 Novem ber produced some disappointing resins. however. the results of the CO’s Turret Competition the next day raised morale considerably when it was announced that Is: Troop under Sgt Davies had won and that the other troops had all done well. On Thursday 28 November we loaded our CVR(T) at Wolfenbuttei Station once more and departed for OEREKE Camp. The firing programme proper commenced on Monday with the Squadron completing static engage- ments on Range 7A. There followed Urgent Target engagements the next day on Range 1C and then a series of Battle Runs each day thereafter on dif- ferent ranges. Because of the inexper- ience of the crews the shooting was dis- appointing and it was not surprising therefore that the Squadron received a C Grading, We could only hope that this experience would prove valuable when the Regiment fired again in the following April. ‘ Christmas Celebrations and more Farewqr With Gunnery Camp behind us our attentions focussed very firmly on the hectic forthcoming Christmas Ceiebra» tions, The B Squadron party itself took place on Friday 20 December and will be remembered mainly for an attempted ”Blues Brothers“ style rendition of “RAWHIDE” by the Squadron Leader. “Mr.T." and LCpi Noon: accompanied by the Regimental Band. all well pro- tected from ”incomers" behind a wire mesh screen specially erected for the occasion! The party also marked the farewell of the Squadron Leader and . Mrs Burgess; they were presented with l a pair of decanters by the Squadron They leave us for a posting to the UK; in their place we welcome Major and Mrs Short from Bielefeld, ' The first activity that B Squadron were involved with this year was Exer- cise HARD FIST which was designed to be a Corps wide ammunition out loading exercise. However, due to circ- |
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