2006-08-19 23:54:21 · 11 answers · asked by devonlad06 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
sorry i ment cavalry
2006-08-20 00:10:43 · update #1
If you are thinking about joining the Household Cavalry as an officer, then maybe because most of our officers are upper class, and i think they are doing it as an inheritance thing. I am a LCpl in the Household Cavalry and i am a working class citizen from Birmingham. So it depends what you are joining as. When you go to Sandhurst as an officer you have to be chosen. So if they chose you it is because you are good enough.
2006-08-20 00:02:36 · answer #1 · answered by Coley61 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am the wife of a British Army Officer and I can spot a Household Cavalry Officer across a room, even if they are in Civvies. He is the one who one would describe as 'an awfully nice Chap' with a wife named Camilla. My husband is a brilliant man. He has a First Class degree, Went to Staff College, and is a Senior Officer in a demanding field but he would never have got in to the Household Cavalry. Why? because he went to a State School!
2006-08-20 05:54:54 · answer #2 · answered by Kitty 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No just like any branch of the armed forces you can request an attachment to the Household Cavalry and you don't even have to be able to ride a horse or have any experiences with horses. There was a BBC programme last year that followed a group of recruits through basic training and up to their first official royal engagement and some of those came from "lower class" backgrounds. Remeber they not only form the Royal body guard but have an armoured role, tanks, in the regular army.
2006-08-20 00:05:30 · answer #3 · answered by cursedterror 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I spent 24 years in the British Army. To answer your question... for the officers of the Regiment... most certainly!
2006-08-20 01:58:09 · answer #4 · answered by Saudi Geoff 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just to be accurate, Devon Lad, it's 'cavalry', and I don't think so.
Have a look at their website:
http://www.householdcavalry.co.uk/
good luck!
2006-08-20 00:00:52 · answer #5 · answered by mad 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i went for an interview in the recruitment office - for a place as an officer in one of those regiments - i was basically told - that i didn't have the breeding for it
so I'm joining the navy - its a better life anyway
2006-08-20 02:17:12 · answer #6 · answered by tom4741 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whats 'caverly'?
2006-08-20 00:01:18 · answer #7 · answered by DelusionRoad 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, its supposed to be open to any soldier, but its still a very elite club. Besides, they aren't a fighting regiment, so all this crap about Harry and William wanting to join it is a load of tosh.
2006-08-20 00:02:30 · answer #8 · answered by thomas p 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
no i have a mate in that reg and he is common as much
2006-08-20 06:43:00 · answer #9 · answered by johnstrangey 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
of course it certainly not for you
2006-08-23 03:10:51 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋