Britain is still paying to maintain an Army in Germany-the British Army of the Rhine. This film is about life in that Army as seen through the eyes of one of its regiments
The 17th/21st Lancers
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The 17th/21st Lancers are a regiment with a proud history. They charged with the Light Brigade, fought at Khartoum, served with distinction in France in the First World War and in the Western Desert and Italy in the Second. Now for the best part of seventeen years they have been a unit of the British Army of the Rhine.
The regimental motto of the 17th/21st Lancers is 'Death or Glory.' In Germany they have seen little of either; and yet that there should be neither death nor glory is the whole point of their being there at all.
