The officers after the Queen’s Birthday Parade
Will Turnor (RHG/D). Managing to fit training around preparations for the State Visit, the day after the escort the team departed for Wales. They performed extremely well and as a first for HCMR, achieved a silver medal, a highly impressive achievement for a team made up of Troopers who have come straight from basic training to riding school.
Straight after the State Visit, the rest of the Regiment deployed en masse to Zandvoorde in Belgium for the 100th anniversary of the Household Cavalry action there, for a battlefield tour and service of commemoration. As well as our normal commitments of Remembrance Weekend at the Festival
of Remembrance and the Cenotaph, 50 members of the Regiment assisted The Royal British Legion on Poppy Day this year. A busy year, but a memorable one for the Mounted Regiment, and we look forward to the Waterloo commemorations next summer.
The Life Guards Squadron
T
he Life Guards Squadron has again had a busy year. There have been some fairly major changes with the hierarchy, with the Squadron loosing SCM Newell from the SHQ and gaining SCM Fitzgerald who has taken to the role as ably as his predecessor left it. Early in the year, 1 Troop gained CoH Liburd who transferred in from the 9/12 Lancers to become one of its CsoH,
along with Tp Ldr Capt Jack Campbell, both of whom finished the riding course without incident. Capt Rufus GordonDean has recently left 2 Troop finally to enjoy civilian life and was replaced by Capt James Harbord, who finished the Khaki ride having sustained a nasty sprained ankle; despite this he soldiered on and passed out during Regimental Training to start the less fun but just
The Life Squadron Regimental Training 2014
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as important Kit Ride in Knightsbridge on his return from Norfolk. 3 Troop also received a new Troop leader, Lt Kit Lewis, who has come straight from Bovington from the Tp Ldrs course and has thrown himself enthusiastically into the equine regiment. There have been a number of Kit Rides that have started and finished throughout the year bringing with them new influxes of