#ExerciseCambrianPatrol18 Final Results
Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment Takes Two Gold Medals on Cambrian Patrol
Teams from the British Army’s Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment have won two Gold Medals at this year’s Exercise Cambrian Patrol. With 137 teams from 37 different countries, Cambrian Patrol 2018 was the biggest yet, with Storm Callum adding additional challenges to the already gruelling competition.
Soldiers from the 1st and 2nd Battalions, The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment, went home with Gold, with colleagues from the Reserve’s 3rd Battalion being recognised with a Certificate of Merit. Despite the extreme conditions ten teams won Gold Medals.
Running from Friday, October 12, through to Sunday, October 21, Ex Cambrian Patrol 18 was split into eight phases. Regular and international patrols set off on Phases 2 to 7, with Reserve and University Officer Training Corps patrols setting off on Phases 1 and 8.Here are the results in full:
Cambrian Patrol, Phase Eight
Bristol University Officer Training Corps, Gold
Queen’s Own Gurkha Logistic Coy, Gold
3rd Battalion Royal Anglian Regiment (3 R ANGLIAN), Silver
The Queen’s Own Yeomanry, Silver
201 Field Hospital, Silver
Northumbria University Officer Training Corps, Silver
Cambridge University Officer Training Corps, Silver
Oxford University Officer Training Corps, Silver
Wales, University Officer Training Corps, Silver
6th Battalion, The Rifles Regiment (6 RIFLES), Bronze
157 (Welsh) Regiment, RLC, Bronze
Glasgow University Officer Training Corps, Bronze
3rd Battalion, Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment (3 PWRR), Certificate
Cambrian Patrol, Phase Seven
104 Regiment, Royal Artillery, Silver
2 Signal Regiment, Silver
7 Regiment, RLC, Silver
Queen’s Royal Hussars, Silver
14 Regiment, Royal Artillery, Silver
16 Regiment, Royal Artillery, Silver
29 EOD Search Group, Certificate
3rd Infantry Battalion, Irish Defence Forces, Silver
Belarus, Gold
Moldova, Silver
Bosnia and Herzegovina Army, Silver
Greece, Silver
Latvia, Silver
Ukraine, Silver
Cambrian Patrol, Phase Six
1st Battalion, Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment 1 PWRR, Gold
12 Regiment, Royal Artillery, Bronze
The Royal Lancers (Queen Elizabeth’s Own), Silver
4th Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland (4 SCOTS), Silver
Household Cavalry, Silver
216 Parachute Signal Squadron, Silver
9 Regiment, RLC, Silver
ITC Catterick, Silver
16 Regiment, Royal Artillery, Bronze
6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, Gold
Pakistan Army, Gold
6th Division, Chilean Army, Silver
Recce Company, 17th Mechanised Brigade, Poland, Bronze
Cambrian Patrol, Phase Five
1st Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland (1 SCOTS), Silver – despite losing two members of the team due to injury
Army Training Centre (ATC) Pirbright, Silver
4 Armoured Close Support Battalion, REME, Bronze
4 Regiment, Army Air Corps, Bronze
3rd Division Signal Regiment, Bronze
1 Regiment, RLC, Bronze
32 Regiment, Royal Artillery, Certificate
Griffin Brigade, Lithuania, Silver
Guard Hussar Regiment, Denmark, Silver
National Guard, Republic of Cyprus, Bronze
Princess Patricia’s Light Infantry, Canada, Silver
Philippines, Certificate
Nigeria, Certificate
Cambrian Patrol, Phase Four
2nd Battalion, Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment (2 PWRR), Gold (Lt Perry Campion, Patrol Commander)
1st Battalion, Royal Gurkha Rifles (1 RGR), The Brigade of Gurkhas, Gold (Captain Bikash Gurung, Patrol Commander)
1st Battalion, The Rifles Regiment (1 RIFLES), Support Company, Silver
5th Battalion, The Rifles Regiment (5 RIFLES), Recce Platoon, Silver
Adjutant General’s Corps, Bronze
Gurkha Company (Sittang), The Brigade of Gurkhas, Silver
Uzbekistan, Gold
France, Silver
2nd Battalion, 8th Gorka Rifles, Indian Army, Silver
Cambrian Patrol, Phase Three
Royal Dragoon Guards, Silver
27 Regiment, RLC, Silver
13 Air Assault Support Regiment, RLC, Silver
Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC) Support Battalion, The Brigade of Gurkhas, Silver
23 Parachute Engineer Regiment Certificate
6 Regiment, RLC, Certificate
144 Parachute Medical Squadron, 16 Medical Regiment, Certificate
231st Mounted Infantry Battalion, Germany, Certificate
44th Light Motorized Battalion, Czech Republic, Certificate
Cambrian Patrol, Phase Two
Due to Storm Callum, Phase Two of this year’s Cambrian Patrol was halted after about 9 hours on the first day. Storm Callum resulted in flooding, landslides and blocked roads across Wales.
1st Battalion, The Rifles Regiment (1 RIFLES), Gold
Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, Silver
Royal Highland Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland (2 SCOTS), Silver
5th Battalion, The Rifles Regiment (5 RIFLES), Silver
2nd Battalion, The Royal Gurkha Rifles (2 RGR), Silver
Queen’s Gurkha Engineers, Silver
4th Battalion, The Rifles Regiment (4 RIFLES), Bronze
4th Battalion, The Yorkshire Regiment (4 YORKS), Certificate
Royal Netherlands Marine Corps (Korps Mariniers), Bronze
Italy, Bronze
Switzerland, Bronze
Kosovo, Bronze
Albania, Bronze
Georgia, Bronze
Nepal, Bronze
Armenia, Certificate
Further Reading
Exercise Cambrian Patrol 18 features in the first issue of the new Combat Camera magazine. Click here to find out more.
Image: British Army soldiers on Exercise Cambrian Patrol 18, October 2018, photograph by Sgt Jonathan Lee van Zyl (Crown Copyright, 2018).