APPENDIX 7
Memorandum from the Ministry of Defence
concerning Fourth Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment (29 February
2000)
You will recall that when we announced the Strategic
Defence Review we said that we were going to create a fourth Armoured
Reconnaissance Regiment. This regiment will be formed by re-roling
the Queen's Dragoon Guards (QDG) and moving them from Catterick
to Stanley Barracks, Bovington. The conversion of that regiment
is well in hand, we also intend to move the QDG from their current
location in Catterick to Bovington, and for the Queen's Royal
Lancers (QRL) to move into Catterick behind them when they return
from Germany.
The works necessary at Bovington are considerable
and involve the construction of all the garages, workshops and
hard standing for the QDG vehicles. Originally we had considered
undertaking the minimum work necessary to accommodate the unit
in the short term and doing some further build around them to
allow the unit to occupy the barracks quickly. We have subsequently
concluded that it would be more cost effective and better for
the Servicemen concerned to delay the move until the works could
be completed on a permanent basis. We shall therefore be delaying
the move of the QDG to Bovington until 2003, and thus the move
of the QRL back from Germany until the same time.
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