Contents Editorial Team Battle and Civic Honours 1 Battle and Civic Honours 1 Captain Oliver Keith Foreword from the Colonel in Chief 2 Miss Charlotte Varty Foreword from the Colonel of the Regiment 3 Regimental Headquarters Regimental Ethos 4 The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment 1 PWRR 6 HM Tower of London EC3N 4AB 2 PWRR 28 Tel: 0203 166 6908 3 PWRR 50 E-mail:INFHQ-QUEENS-PWRR- [email protected] B Company, The London Regiment 72 Royal Military Academy Sandhurst 76 Printing Infantry Battle School (Brecon) 78 D Isom (Printers) Ltd Queen’s Division Courses (Fire Team Commander’s Cadre) 80 Stanley Road, Herne Bay University of London Officers’ Training Corps 82 Kent CT6 5SJ Royal Marine Exchange Programme 84 Tel: 01227 363866 Email: mail@isomprint PWRR Skiing Teams 86 The Royal Life Guards - Denmark 88 PWRR Copyright 3 (Fighter) Squadron RAF 90 This journal contains official HMS Excellent 92 information. 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THE TIGER 2014 JOURNAL OF THE PRINCESS OF WALES’S ROYAL REGIMENT Colonel-in-Chief Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II of Denmark Colonel of the Regiment Brigadier Richard Dennis OBE Deputy Colonels of the Regiment Brigadier Doug Chalmers DSO OBE Colonel Patrick Crowley Colonel Charlie Sykes Honorary Colonels 3rd Battalion B Company The London Regiment Colonel Algy Cluff DL Colonel David Mogg TD BATTLE HONOURS BATTLE HONOURS TO BE BORNE ON THE QUEEN’S COLOUR Mons, Retreat from Mons, Aisne 1914, Ypres 1914, 15, 17, 18, Hill 60, Somme 1916, 18, Albert 1916, 18, Arras 1917, 18, Cambrai 1917, 18, Hindenburg Line, Italy 1917-18, Dorian 1917, 18, Landing At Helles, Suvla, Gaza, Jerusalem, Palestine 1917-18, Kut al Amara 1915, 17, Mesopotamia 1915-18, North West Frontier India 1915, 1916-17, Dunkirk 1940, Normandy Landing, Caen, Rhine, North West Europe 1940, 44-45, Abyssinia 1941, El Alamein, Tebourba Gap, Hunt’s Gap, Lomgstop Hill 1943, North Africa 1940-43, Sicily 1943, Salerno, Anzio, Cassino, Gothic Line, Italy 1943-45, Malta 1940-42, Malaya 1941-42, Hong Kong, Defence of Kohima, Burma 1943-45 BATTLE HONOURS TO BE BORNE ON THE REGIMENTAL COLOUR Tangier 1662-80, Namur 1695, Gibraltar 1704-05, Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenarde, Malplaquet, Dettingen, Louisberg, Guadaloupe 1759, Minden, Quebec 1759, Belleisle, Martinique 1762, Tournay, Seringapatam, Maida, Corunna, Talavera, Barrosa, Albuhera, Alamarz, Vittoria, Peninsula, Afghanistan 1879-80, Punniar, Moodkee, Sobraon, Inkerman, Sevastopol, Lucknow, Taku Forts, Pekin1860, New Zealand, Nile 1884-1885, Burma 1885-87, Paardeburg, Relief of Ladysmith, South Africa 1899-1902, Korea 1950-51 CIVIC HONOURS Freedoms Arundel, Ashford, Barnet, Basingstoke and Deane, Belfast, Brighton and Hove, Bournemouth, Canterbury, Chichester, Christchurch, Crowborough, Eastbourne, Eastleigh, Folkestone, Guildford, Hastings, Kingston upon Thames, Lewes, Maidstone, Portsmouth, Ramsgate, Reigate and Banstead, Romsey, Rushmoor, Southampton, Southwark, Test Valley, Tonbridge and Malling, Tunbridge Wells, Waverley, Winchester and Worthing Privilege City of London, Jersey Bond of Friendship Epsom and Ewell Regimental Motto ‘Unconquered I Serve’ 1 Colonel-in-Chief Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II of Denmark 2 www.pwrr.org.uk Colonel of the Regiment Brigadier Richard Dennis OBE The Regiment has had another busy and successful become an active member, to be routinely following the year – much of which you will find described in the Friends social media sites, to actively support Friends pages that follow. The 1st Battalion has established events across the South and to spread the word to itself as one of the most broadly accomplished sporting those who have not yet heard it. Secondly, at last year’s units anywhere in the Army while getting to grips with Evening with Heroes, Sergeant Jay Baldwin spoke very armoured conversion and hosting a highly successful movingly about his battle with the traumatic visit by the Colonel-in-Chief. The 2nd Battalion amputation of both his legs in Afghanistan but his completed a demanding tour in London District and determination to make a successful second career returned to Cyprus where the recent upsurge in violence beyond the Regiment – to embody that vital shift from across the Middle East has seen them take on an victim to victor in the face of extraordinary adversity. The operational focus that few could have imagined this only thing holding Jay back at present is the limitations time last year. Meanwhile the 3rd Battalion has earned imposed on him by prosthetic legs – they don’t work for a reputation as “Best in Class” of the new breed of Army him - so the Friends will be funding Jay to the tune of Reserve battalions, forging very tight links with 1 R £75,000 to receive ground-breaking surgery in Australia ANGLIAN and leading the charge on recruiting. which will fit him out with new legs which I very much hope will allow him to walk on to the stage at this year’s The other good news story that I want to highlight here Evening with Heroes which will be held at The Tower on is that of The Friends of the Princess of Wales’s Royal 29 October 2015. So – as well as welcoming you to this Regiment which came of age this year and which now year’s edition of The Tiger I would also ask you to make goes from strength to strength. Born out of a this the year when you join the Friends if you have not determination to see the Regiment better placed to already done so and give them your wholehearted weather the inevitable storms ahead by broadening our support. ability to raise funds for our soldiers, to increase our recruiting appeal and to provide a soft landing for those Tigers returning to the civilian world, it has achieved all those things - and more. Thanks to the outstanding support of Arcadia Consulting and the hard work and dedication of Brigadier Matt Maer, Nick Goble and Colour Sergeant Brian Wood, The Friends held an Evening with Heroes in Covent Garden in October which raised some £50,000. This was a tangible demonstration of the extraordinary influence that the Friends have begun to exert across our entire Regimental community: those serving with us, those no longer serving, those that aspire to serve, our wider Regimental family in the cadet movement, the Regimental Associations and those companies and individuals across our recruiting area who simply wish to be more closely identified with “their” Regiment. This year the Friends have two very specific challenges which I would ask for your help with. Firstly, we want every member of the Regiment and all those that I have described above to 3 Regimental Ethos 4 www.pwrr.org.uk The Tigers are a fighting regiment - we soldiers. Our robust approach combines thrive on complex, tough operations. an informal and light touch with incredibly high professional standards. We are the senior English Regiment of Comfortable with change and the Line. We are forward looking, yet innovation, we are a learning fiercely proud of our famous forebear organisation, constantly seeking to regiments whose fighting spirit and improve and educate. traditions thrive in today’s Regiment. We train hard to fight hard, and pride Our inspirational officers lead by ourselves on our courage under fire. We example, forging a close bond with their are a tight-knit meritocracy and soldiers, based on mutual trust and inclusive family regiment of Cadets, respect. This relationship is rooted in a Reservists, Regulars and Veterans. We thorough knowledge of their men, honed maximise links with our recruiting through arduous training and confirmed heartland in the South East of England, in battle. We are supported and whilst encouraging diversity in our encouraged by combat-proven, ranks. Self-confident yet modest, we are relentlessly professional and utterly genuinely welcoming to others - loyal Warrant Officers, Sergeants and developing real bonds of friendship that Junior NCOs. We rely unconditionally on stand the test of time and conflict. our dependable, capable and spirited Fierce Pride 5 1 PWRR Lieutenant Colonel Andy Flay Commanding Officer It has been another outstanding year of achievements 2015 will see the Battalion further develop our skills in for the First Battalion. The early part of the year was armour, with our deployment to BATUS as OPFOR very much focused on the deployment to Afghanistan providing a golden opportunity to prepare ourselves for by elements of A, Y and HQ companies on Op HERRICK our first test exercise as armoured infantry in Canada 20.