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REGIMENTAL JOURNAL OF THE 9TH/12TH ROYAL LANCERS (PRINCE OF WALES’S)
REGIMENTAL JOURNAL OF THE 9TH/12TH ROYAL LANCERS (PRINCE OF WALES’S) Editors: Major SP Doherty and Captain SP Hardy Regimental Website: www.army.mod.uk/912lancers
Volume XI
No.14
Contents Regimental Headquarters .........................................3 Foreword by the Colonel of the Regiment................ 3 Foreword by the Commanding Officer ..................... 4 Regimental Diary 2011 ............................................... 5 A Year as Regimental Sergeant Major ....................... 8 Regimental Prizes and Awards 2011 ....................... 10 The Squadrons .........................................................11 Officer Commanding A Squadron ........................... 11 B Squadron (Kandak advisory training team) – Operation HERRICK 14 ..................................... 23 C Squadon Overview................................................. 33 Headquarter Squadron Overview ............................ 40 Operation HERRICK ..............................................51 Operation HERRICK ............................................... 51 LANCE CORPORAL PAUL WILLIAM WATKINS ............................................................ 57 Operation RESTORATION ...................................62 Operation RESTORATION 11 ............................... 63 Socialising .................................................................64 The Messes ...............................................................65 Officers’ Mess ............................................................ 65 Warrant Officers’ and Sergeants’ Mess .................... 66 The Corporals’ Mess ................................................. 68 Lancers Ladies and Young Lancers ........................ 69 Regimental Welfare Office........................................ 70 Light Role Reconnaissance Commanders Course . 74 A Cavalry Sergeant On The Infamous Platoon Sergeants Battle Course ....................................... 74
Pre Parachute Selection ............................................ 75 Exercise Cambrian Patrol 2011 ................................ 76 Lancers in Kenya ...................................................... 77 Exercise Kalahari Lancer ......................................... 78 On Top of the World – Exercise Andalucian Lancer ............................... 79 Extreme Mentoring................................................... 81 Exercise Rhino Soldier ............................................. 81
Teaching counterinsurgency to the Nigerian Armed Forces .................................................................. 100 Afghan National Army Advisor, Operation HERRICK 13 ................................... 101 Aide to Camp to General Officer Commanding 5th Division ............................................................... 103 SO3 Combat Arms, Combined Training and Advisory Group-Afghanistan, Kabul ................................ 103
Triple Crown Challenge ............................................ 82
Army Training Regiment (Bassingbourn) (ART (B) ........................................................................ 104
Hohne 2 Headly Court.............................................. 83
Another year at 16 Cadet Training Team .............. 105
A Lancer in Lapland................................................. 84 Regimental Sport .....................................................86 Alpine Skiing – Exercise White Night Lancer ...... 87 The Cresta Run ......................................................... 88 Football ...................................................................... 89 Golf ............................................................................. 90 Netball ........................................................................ 90 Nordic Skiing. ........................................................... 90 Modern Pentathlon – 13th World Biathle Championships 2011 .......... 91 Polo ............................................................................. 92 Triathlon .................................................................... 93 ERE ............................................................................95 1 Mechanised Brigade............................................... 95 Kuwait Joint Command and Staff College.............. 96
Tayforth University Officer Training Corps (OTC)105 Work and play as the St. Andrews Permanent Staff Instructor (PSI) ................................................. 105 9/12th Lancers Charity Freefall ............................. 107 Home Headquarters ..............................................109 Old Comrades Association ..................................... 109 Obituaries................................................................. 110 Officers’ Regimental Dinner .................................. 114 9th/12th Royal Lancers (Princes of Wales’s) Charitable Association ....................................... 115 Regimental Museum ............................................... 116 The Band of the 9th Queen’s Royal Lancers and Colleagues from the Regimental Old Comrades Association ......................................................... 116 Unveiling of the Memorial Headstone for Corporal Thomas Hancock VC, 9th Lancers, 1822-1871 ...................................... 117
Loan Service in Sierra Leone .................................. 96
Regimental Charitable Association Fundraising Dinner for Afghanistan at White’s Club .......... 118
Lancer in Manhattan ................................................ 97
9th/12th Royal Lancers OCA ................................ 118
Perfecting the Southern Drawl ................................ 98
Coast2Coast Walk 2011 ........................................... 118
In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz… ............................... 99
Regimental Gazette – Order of Battle ................... 120
The Delhi Spearman, The Annual Journal of the 9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales’s), is published on behalf of the Regiment by: Crest Publications, 20 Moulton Business Park, Scirocco Close, Northampton NN3 6AP. Tel : 01604 495495 Fax: 01604 495465 email: journals@crestpublications.com www.crestpublications.com Crown Copyright: This publication contains official information. It should be treated with discretion by the recipient. The opinions expressed in the articles in this journal are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the policy and views, official or otherwise, of the Regiment or the Ministry of Defence. No responsibility for the goods or services advertised in this journal can be accepted by the Regiment or its publishers or printers and advertisements are included in good faith. No part of this publication may be reproduced without the prior permission of the Regiment and Publisher.
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