Steve Holland, OC C Sqn QOY visited the museum today to speak to everyone there and refresh ties with the museum. The museum passed inspection with flying colours and included a few reminders of Steve’s service to the nation. (He is shown below, in the lower frame on the wall, in a photo of QOY’s tour of duty in Iraq. Steve is front row 3rd from right.). He was able to see a painting depicting the Freedom of Chester Parade from 1996 where he could recall his duties as a flag bearer in front of a ‘skittish’ horse, highlighted here (the middle, closest flagbearer to the horse!): The Queen’s Own Yeomanry’s foundations were as a cavalry, specifically ‘a light cavalry reconnaissance unit’, so he took time to stop by the lifesize model of a horse in Cheshire Regiment regalia (below, with Mike Huntriss).The Main photo (above, top) shows Mike Huntriss, Vice Chair of the Friends of Cheshire Military Museum with Steve Holland, OC C Sqn QOY and what is now replacing a horse in battle, a previous model to the Jackal now used by QOY for light armoured reconnaissance.