clarify and consolidate support, focus on what we need to do and how it is funded. We continue to try and influence defence and publicly funded policy but knowing that the Foundation can make a difference to those serving and retired, and their dependants is important. Through concepts like Ex TOUCH EVEREST and Zandvoorde 2014, to helping casualties transition to new careers, and maintaining our heritage we do, I believe, make that difference. It is vital that the current generation of serving Household Cavalrymen realise what a unique organisation we serve in and value serving in it. This is crucial to retaining our best in a full career so that my successors will hear the echoes of what I am fortunate to hear - that our officers and soldiers shine out in the Army: on operations, Special Duties and training; from operational theatres to Sandhurst and Horse Guards. I do not wish to dwell on the Foundation as it is now well established. The OCF Endowment Fund sits at £1.25M and growing; building that fund has not been compromised by fundraising for the Museum, which will have external loans paid off in 2014, and its revenues then used to resource the wider charitable objects of the Foundation. The Board includes the Commanding Officers, Regimental Corporals Major and Chairmen of the Associations so it is transparent and allows us to look across the five charitable objects of the Foundation, prioritise charitable expenditure and direct how, when and where we fundraise. The Household Cavalry are extremely grateful to so many for their support, particularly the Schroder and Wyndham families, Rupert Fryer and other individual donors who have discreetly and generously supported the Foundation. I commend the Foundation website hcavfoundation.org. It has been updated and provides news and information on all our activities, and links to social media and reference material. The more it is used the more useful it will become
to the Household Cavalry family. I also commend a visit to the Museum: the display has been updated to reflect 20th - 21st century operations and now includes an audio visual guide.
Guards and The Blues and Royals, but also allowed the Household Cavalry to celebrate this occasion with a Garden Party at Buckingham Palace. As we go to print over 4,000 have accepted the invitation to attend and this is a testament to the Household Cavalry family in its widest sense. I will then hand over to Major General E A Smyth-Osbourne as Lieutenant Colonel Commanding Household Cavalry and Silver-Stick in Waiting. I hope he will enjoy, as much as I have, overseeing the well-being of the Household Cavalry family and the honour of these appointments.
I hope you enjoy this Journal and as always we are indebted to the editor for his diligence. This is the fourth Foreword I have written and it is always inspiring to read what has been achieved but an unenviable task to single out those for thanks. However, this year holds no challenge. We dined out Paul Stretton and Dick HennessyWalsh before Christmas for their service, regular and retired to the Household Cavalry. Not only serving with The Life Guards and The Blues and Royals but also as Regimental Secretary and Assistant Secretary, their work for their respective Associations, their advice and guidance on so many issues, their encyclopaedic knowledge of the Household Cavalry and their wise counsel on the Foundation has been invaluable. We owe them a huge debt of thanks for this and many other unrecorded actions to support serving and retired members of the Household Cavalry and wish them well in retirement. I look forward to seeing many of you at the Presentation of Standards on 28th May, when Her Majesty The Queen has not only graciously agreed to present new Col SH Cowen, accompanying The Major General, Maj Gen EA Smyth-Osbourne, on his inspection of the Mounted Regiment Standards to The Life HONOURS AND AWARDS
The following awards have been made for service in Afghanistan on operations from September 2012 to October 2013:
Lance Corporal Simon George MOLONEY RHG/D Captain Alexander Ryland PICKTHALL LG Major Rupert Spark EVETTS RHG/D Major Thomas James ARMITAGE LG Staff Corporal Alexander James CAWLEY RHG/D Lance Corporal of Horse Kevin John SEDGWICK RHG/D
CGC MC MBE MID MID MID
The following individual was honoured in the New Year’s Honours List 2014, published on 31st December 2013, for voluntary services to Modern Pentathlon
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Major (Retd) Dominic John Grehan MAHONY LG
MBE