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In Memory of
Lt Anthony Daly aged 23
SQMC Roy Bright aged 36
Lcpl Jeffrey Young aged 19
Tpr Simon Tipper aged 19
The Blues and Royals
O Lord Jesus Christ who by the Holy Apostle has called us to put on the
armour of God and to take the sword of the spirit, give thy grace we pray thee,
to the Blues and Royals that we may fight manfully under thy banner against all
evil, and waiting on thee to renew our strength, may mount up with wings as
eagles, in thy name, who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy
Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen.
Men and horses lay dead and dying in the park
Detective Inspector John Stevens was one of the first police officers to see the carnage of the IRA Hyde Park bombing in 1982
WE came on a scene of appalling devastation in the South Carriageway, on the bottom edge of the park.
A bomb loaded with 4in and 6in nails had been detonated by remote control in a blue Morris Marina, just as the Queen’s Lifeguard, a detachment of the Household Calvary, was passing on its way from Knightsbridge Barracks to Horse Guards Parade. Men and horses lay dead or dying, and more than twenty people, as well as several horses, had been severely injured.
The regimental farriers, who had sprinted from their barracks when they heard the explosion, were splashed with blood from head to foot on their bare torsos and long leather aprons. Debris was scattered everywhere, and human remains were being taken away. The atmosphere was desperately tense, for there was every chance that a second bomb might go off.
The regiment’s commander, Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Parker-Bowles, had raced to the scene on foot, and as he arrived had met a groom leading a severely wounded horse, which had blood gushing from a huge hole in its neck.
Immediately he told the man to take off his shirt and stuff it into the wound — but that was impossible, for one of the groom's hands had been pierced by a four-inch nail, which was sticking out on both sides. Another man sacrificed his shirt and staunched the blood. But for that, the horse would never have reached its stable. It survived and became a hero — Sefton — and lived to the age of thirty.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...icle566235.ece
Lt Anthony Daly aged 23
SQMC Roy Bright aged 36
Lcpl Jeffrey Young aged 19
Tpr Simon Tipper aged 19
The Blues and Royals
O Lord Jesus Christ who by the Holy Apostle has called us to put on the
armour of God and to take the sword of the spirit, give thy grace we pray thee,
to the Blues and Royals that we may fight manfully under thy banner against all
evil, and waiting on thee to renew our strength, may mount up with wings as
eagles, in thy name, who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy
Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen.
Men and horses lay dead and dying in the park
Detective Inspector John Stevens was one of the first police officers to see the carnage of the IRA Hyde Park bombing in 1982
WE came on a scene of appalling devastation in the South Carriageway, on the bottom edge of the park.
A bomb loaded with 4in and 6in nails had been detonated by remote control in a blue Morris Marina, just as the Queen’s Lifeguard, a detachment of the Household Calvary, was passing on its way from Knightsbridge Barracks to Horse Guards Parade. Men and horses lay dead or dying, and more than twenty people, as well as several horses, had been severely injured.
The regimental farriers, who had sprinted from their barracks when they heard the explosion, were splashed with blood from head to foot on their bare torsos and long leather aprons. Debris was scattered everywhere, and human remains were being taken away. The atmosphere was desperately tense, for there was every chance that a second bomb might go off.
The regiment’s commander, Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Parker-Bowles, had raced to the scene on foot, and as he arrived had met a groom leading a severely wounded horse, which had blood gushing from a huge hole in its neck.
Immediately he told the man to take off his shirt and stuff it into the wound — but that was impossible, for one of the groom's hands had been pierced by a four-inch nail, which was sticking out on both sides. Another man sacrificed his shirt and staunched the blood. But for that, the horse would never have reached its stable. It survived and became a hero — Sefton — and lived to the age of thirty.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...icle566235.ece
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