robin craig Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 Anyone know anything about it and who had it in the UK before it went to the USA? R Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robin craig Posted June 5, 2011 Author Share Posted June 5, 2011 Come now, someone must have seen it in the UK at some point in time before it went to the USA. R Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoelH Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 (edited) Hello Robin, Only information I could find was here. Its the 5th vehicle down: I guess you have already seen this. However, it was already in the USA at this stage. Cheers, Joel Edited June 5, 2011 by JoelH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robin craig Posted June 5, 2011 Author Share Posted June 5, 2011 Joel, yes i have seen those pictures before and know them well. I would like to find out through whose hands it passed in the UK prior to that. R Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirhc Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 Robin, Have you tried asking the seller? Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robin craig Posted June 5, 2011 Author Share Posted June 5, 2011 Chris, I have my reasons, but no. Was hoping some eagle eyed member here might have recognised it, funnily enough I thought you would! R Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlienFTM Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 If the regimental badge * decal on the night sight cover is correct, it used to be 17/21st Lancers (pre-1992). It may of course be that a private owner decided to slap a decal on the night sight cover because it looks pretty: it never happened in service unless a vehicle was on a KAPE tour to Keep the Army in the Public Eye. In Options for Change, 17/21st Lancers amalgamated with 16/5th Lancers to become the Queen's Royal Lancers. However, something is telling me that QRL use a red background (as did 15/19th Hussars and their post-Options son The Light Dragoons). I don't know exactly when Sabre was in service, but I do know that Light Dragoons had them in the Balkans in the mid-90s. I cannot remember whether QRL are now (permanently since Options) recce or amour: I suspect the former. The blurb says chain gun, which istr is correct for a Sabre in a recce regt, but not recce troop of an armoured regiment. _____ * 17/21L and afaik QRL take great exception to people calling their badge a badge: they prefer "motto" because with the scroll under the death's head, it reads "Death or Glory", motto of either 17th or 21st Lancers, forebears of 17/21L. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tack9/12l Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 qrl remained an armoured regt up till 2003 i think then reroled back to recce. sabre was rejected by the rac only inf recce platoons used them when we 9/12l were the last ever training regt the inf platoon in lulworth had 3 and warriors. we had 13 scimitars and 3 strikers. The light dragoons used scimitars in bosnia as did we Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirhc Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 03FD47 was with 1 Staffords in 2003. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazz Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 Sabre was used by TA Armoured Recce Regts, we had them in the QOY. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrevorLarkum Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 Come now, someone must have seen it in the UK at some point in time before it went to the USA. A bit late in the day, I know, but I've just seen it on the A+S website, so it presumably went via there: http://www.arm-soft.com/workshop/index.php Hope that helps! I'm currently writing up A+S for PreservedTanks.com, so I was scouring the photographs for clues to which vehicles had passed through there, and a Google on the reg got me here - very handy, so thanks everyone here for the info on where it went. Location ID 3350: A+S Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robin craig Posted March 4, 2012 Author Share Posted March 4, 2012 Trevor, I knew of that connection, I should have posted it and updated this thread. My apologies. R Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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