James Holland

The trooper that's driving it drowns.

He spends a night in a field, and the next morning he doesn't know what to do, and he's sort of waiting around, just going, well, what am I supposed to do?

And no one seems to know, and every time he asks someone, they just sort of go, I don't know.

And eventually someone goes, yeah, you're going to go and join the...

The Sherwood Rangers.

So he gets there that evening.

He arrives on 0.103 on the evening of Sunday the 11th of May, the same day, June rather, the same day that Mike Laycock has been killed, the squadron commander.

Yeah.

And John Semkin, who only two days earlier had assumed command of a seconding commander replacement of Keith Douglas, is now acting commander of a squadron because Stanley is acting regimental commander.

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.