A member of the King's Royal Hussars Battle Group, on Exercise BLACK EAGLE, Poland, 2014

Digital photograph by Corporal Paul Shaw, Poland, 2014.

1st Battalion Royal Welsh and the Kings Royal Hussars taking part in a live firing exercise during Exercise BLACK EAGLE. The Anglo-Polish exercise at the Zagan Training Area was part of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation's (NATO) demonstration of support for its allies in Eastern Europe and the Baltic States.

12th Mechanised Brigade, which includes the Royal Welch infantry regiment and the King's Royal Hussars armoured regiment, with its ace of spades insignia, was reformed in 1998 following the Strategic Defence Review. It served in Bosnia in 1999, Iraq in 2007 and Afghanistan in 2007 and 2012.

From a collection of photographs compiled by Corporal Tom Seaton-Norton, Royal Logistic Corps.