James Holland

Yeah.

None of which confirmed and no one knows where Stephen Mitchell is.

John Semkin's 23.

Yeah.

Semkin is really nice to him, greets him with warmth, kindness, puts him in the picture, tells him all he needs to know, or as much as he can think of to tell him, and says, right, you're now commanding five troop.

Yeah.

So he takes over from Peter Pepler, who's been killed on the 9th of June as well, the same day as Keith Douglas, in the same attack.

And Peter Pepler had only joined the regiment in May.

You talk about churn.

Yeah.

So Monday the 12th of June is David Render's first day in action.

And the first contacts of the crew aren't very promising.

He gets there and he orders the crew to T&A the sights.

And this is test and adjust them.

And, you know, you're taught to do this at Sandhurst.

And, you know, what you do is you put a little thread of grass across the barrel and you kind of line it all up and all the rest of it.

And in response, one of the older guys... Can you do this, please?

One of the guys goes, you can piss off.

And Sergeant Leslie Jackson is 42.

Yeah.