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THE HAW K Regimental Journal of the 14th/20th King's H ussars REGIMENTAL ASSOCIATIO N 16 Tooks Court, Cursitor Street , London, E .C . 4 AFFILIATION S 43rd Gurkha Lorried Brigad e The Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanr y ALLIED REGIMENT S The Canadian Arm y The 14th Canadian Hussar s Australian Military Force s 2nd/14th Queensland Mounted Infantr y 8th/13th Victorian Mounted Rifle s New Zealand Military Forces Queen Alexandra's Regiment - R.N.Z.A.C . Editor : Major M . A. Urban-Smith, M.C. 2 Journal of the 14th/20th King's Hussars The Commanding Officer—Lieutenant-Colonel G. A . L. C . Talbot Journal of the 14th/20th King's Hussars 3 Foreword By Lieut.-Colonel G. A. L. C. Talbot I took over the Regiment from Lieutenant - Everyone was in great form at the smoke r Colonel Walsh at the end of July, 1961 . in the dining room . The Corporals' Mes s Straight away—as far as I was concerned— laid on a really splendid dance and the whole we were plunged into our classification firin g series of celebrations came to a fitting clima x on the Hohne Ranges. That we did well i s with the Sergeants' Mess ball. As a part of entirely due to the careful preparations b y these celebrations " H .Q." Squadron beat Squadrons and the Regimental Gunnery " C " Squadron in the D'Arcy Hall footbal l Officer. We were scheduled to have a quie t by 3—2 in one of the best Squadron matche s August so sent all we could on leave . How - I have seen for a long time . ever, this was not to be and we were caugh t On January 1 we were sad to leave Brigadie r up with the political situation. Suffice t o Sharp's Command and took on our third say that our projected move home, whic h role in just over a year by becoming part o f was to have taken place in January 1962, was an Armoured Brigade. Security, apparently, postponed until August. In September w e forbids me to give its number . As to the went out to Soltau for our final Brigad e future, it is planned, as I have said, for us to training period and in October embarked o n return to England in August and then go to Exercise "Spearpoint ." A good deal appeare d North Africa in September, where we shal l in the Press about this exercise, and I expec t have the Regiment less a squadron in Ben- it may be dealt with in more detail in th e ghazi and the detached squadron in Tripoli . various Squadron Notes . One thing I d o think is worthy of note and that is that w e One other thing deserves a mention and arrived at the end of the exercise with ever y that is recruiting. We still, of course, want one of our vehicles running under its own as many Lancashiremen (and others) in the power. The tanks had covered about 200 Regiment as possible. To this end a recruitin g miles and other vehicles considerably more . team went home in September, linked up We had our breakdowns but, being on the with the R.A.C. recruiting display, and enemy and therefore advancing side, we wer e toured Lancashire. That it had an effect able to fix these each night before first light . there is no doubt. Several of our young In November Brigadier Sharp carried out our soldiers either saw or heard of it . I have administrative inspection and had some nic e accordingly sent back a permanent team t o things to say. Almost immediately after - be resident in England, attached to The Duke wards Colonel Stephen came out to stay with of Lancaster ' s Own Yeomanry, and let u s us for Ramnuggur . I have attended man y hope that 1962 will see us reach our target Ramnuggurs but I believe this to be the best. figure of 535 men serving in the Regiment ! D'Arcy Hall Competition Results as at 1st February, 196 2 "A " Squadron " B " Squadro n " C " Squadro n " H.Q." Squadron Cross-country 1 4 2 3 .22 Shooting 1 3 2 4 Drill 4 3 2 1 Cricket . 1 2 4 3 Swimming . 2 3 4 1 Athletics . li 4 l4 3 Football . 2 1 3 4 124 20 184 19 4 Journal of the 14th/20th King's Hussars H.Q. Squadron Notes In June Major Harri s departed for a mor e active life in "A" Squad- ron and Captain Good- hart arrived via " C " Squadron from the flesh- pots of Manchester. S.M . Cundy is now S .S .M. and S.Q.M.S. Sharrock i s now with us after a long tour as an instructo r at Bovington. Sgt. Sharp is now our chie f policeman and Sgt . Marshall, who has, alas , lost his Arabian sun-tan, is once again Regimental Signal Sergeant . Sgt. Bonfield , who now looks more prosperous than ever , presides over the Sergeants' Mess bar . Sgt . Percival, who reached that rank a wee k before his National Service release, left , much to our regret, just after the Guidon Parade. He is missed in the Recce Troop, on the football field and in the Squadron bar . Sgt. Fuller has just left to join the staff o f Cpl . Bassey, of the Nigerian Recce Squadron, attache d the J.L.R . to Tech . Department . Autumn, 1961 We have had two re-enlistments : Tpr . Barnes, who was originally in the 1st Royal In the Technical department we hav e Tanks, and Tpr. Welch, who was with thi s been joined by L/Cpl. Nelis and Tpr. Spencer . regiment in Tripoli and Munster . He is in Cpl. Bassey of the Nigerian Armoured Car the Recce Troop but spends much of his time Squadron stayed with us for six months an d at the racing stables. survived the hardships of the training are a The main outing of the year has, of course , and an atomic attack on Exercise " Spear - been the much-talked-of Exercise " Spear - point." We are glad to say that he was quit e point " and the Soltau training, whic h unperturbed by our food and our " summer " preceded it. We nearly got nucleared onc e weather. but, fortunately, we had left the target are a S .Q.M.S. Taylor has now left the comforts two hours before and the only victim was and frustrations of the Officers' Mess and i s T.Q.M.S. Bentley, who had returned ther e now roughing it in the M .T. department . to pick up some stores . One of his first experiences was to tell a While in the concentration area we helped soldier to go and collect a major assembl y a German farmer with his potato lifting and , from the station . The man did not return in return, were presented with a lovely fat for some time but when he did he said tha t pig. We regret that we in Squadron H .Q . the Major had not arrived ! never saw the enemy during the exercise bu t when we reached the Weser, we had an exciting river crossing, and Sgt . East enter- Q .M . Department tained us by nearly driving his truck into th e We were very sorry to lose R .Q.M.S . river. The Recce Troop were kept fully Witney but delighted that he is now an occupied during the exercise and they hav e R.S.M. We were grieved to hear that he ha d since done numerous frontier patrols . damaged his car on entering the main gate o f After " Spearpoint " everyone covered Lancaster House on his arrival at th e the walls and themselves with many coloured D.L.O.Y. R.Q.M.S. Cripps is now happily distempers in preparation for the admini- with us, as is Sgt. Bruniges from Lulworth , strative inspection. On the day, the Brigadier Sgt. Hill from the Sergeants' Mess and L/Cpl . walked around the Departments and seemed Greenwood after his extended holiday at pleased with what he saw . Field Records . Journal of the 14th/20th King's Hussars 5 These notes are only a brief summary sinc e most of the L.A .D . news is included in th e various Squadron and sports notes . A.Q.M .S . Thompson, who is still going strong, has recently been on an attachment t o the German Army . He stayed with a Panzer Regiment and enjoyed seeing how other people live . What he didn't like was starting work at 7 a .m., finishing at five and not having any " sports " on Wednesday after- noons. He thought that, compared to us , corporate social life was lacking. He admit s that German L .A.D.s do get more work done but, then, they do not have so muc h paper work aS we do . In the sporting world we have had som e success and our members have represented the Regiment in all the major sports . In the Craftsman's Cup competition we have reached the quarter-final in the basket bal l Ski-ing at Murnau. (Left to right) Cfn . Taylor, and football. We have a good hockey team , Cfn . Pritchard and Cfn . Lunny which gave the regimental side a good gam e during the season . Sgts. Summers, McCrae , Cpl. Venness is still with us ; indeed, he is Wilton and Cpl. Keer have all played regu- a veteran of the department .

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