RTR Riders Group

Members of the Royal Tank Regiment Riders attended the Ride To The Wall at the National Memorial Arboritum this  weekend 5th October 2024.  Fran Chandler, mother of a fallen brother Mathew (Hattie) Hatfield was given the honour of laying the Riders Branch wreath. 

Cpl Matt (Hattie) Hatifeld lost his life on the Castlemartin Ranges in 2017.

 Dan Picked Fran up as a pillion passenger and escorted her to the event, well done Dan.

Simon presented Fran a Riders Branch Supporters patch as Fran is now one of our newest Supporters.  with Leif our piper beingplaying the pipes as the official RTTW piper.  you did us proud Leif.

Our members travelled across the nation to attend with Adie and Steve making the epic journey from Cornwall, good work lads.

The reports are the RTTW was yet another very emotional event for all who attended.

FN, God Bless

    The Royal Tank Regiment Riders are pleased to announce that we will be attending the D-Day 80th Anniversary Celebrations at the British Normandy Memorial located in Ver-Sur-Mer, Normandy, France.   On 6th June 2024, The Royal Tank Regiment Riders will be attending the Royal British Legion's main televised event taking place in the morning.

On the afternoon of the 6th June 2024, we have been afforded the prestigious honour of attending as Guard of Honour for the Marie (Mayoress), the prefecture and community of Ver-Sur-Mer, our piper will pipe open and close this personal ceremony.   We are truely honoured and humbled by the invitation and look forward to personally meeting the Marie and community of Ver-Sur-Mer and to form a lasting bond of friendship between the community of Ver-Sur-Mer and the Royal Tank Regiment family. 

A few members of the Royal Tank Regiment Riders Dan, Ged, John, Gary  and Wayne, attended and spent the weekend at RAF Shawbury air base this  weekend 10th to 12th June 2024.  Our hosts stationed there accommodated  us in the Warrant Officers & Sergeants Mess.  The welcome we  received was just amazing, with the RAF being truly exceptional hosts.

The Tri-Service co-operation and friendships between all service  personnel and veterans of the Royal Tank Regiment and the RAF personnel  stationed at the Air base, was both enjoyable and a real pleasure to  witness.  The accommodation was first class and the food really tasty.   Our visit, and pictures will also be published into the RAF Shawbury  Aries Magazine, a bit like our Tank magazine, the visit will promote  closer friendships within the military family.

During our stay we visited RAF Cosford and had a walk through the  museum visiting the cold war era artiffacts, a very interesting place  they have some armoured vehicles, Tanks and recce vehicles.  In addition  we also visited the Dragon Soul Custom motorcycle shop to visit the  owner who used to work for American Chopper, the custom motorcycle  choppers he was completing were really stunning with the group  presenting the owner with an embroidered patch, if any of you motorcycle  enthusiasts are ever in the area of Dragon Soul Customs motorcycles, it  is well worth a visit.

We also had a personal tour of the AMSU hangar at RAF Shawbury with  all of us having the opportunity to sit in a Red Arrow aircraft and have  a photo taken.  The cockpit has a million and one switches, dials and  turny things, it was really interesting, we also were blessed to view  the Typhoon fighter plane, wow what an amazing aircraft.

In the evening we socialised with all serving personnel in the mess bar and a great night was had by all.