The Daily Telegraph

White Helmets motorcylin­g team reach the end of the road

- By Patrick Sawer

FOR 90 years they have travelled the country displaying some of the skills that have stood the British Army in good stead on the battlefiel­d.

But after this weekend the famous White Helmets motorcycle display team will ride no more.

Army chiefs have decided that daring two-wheeled displays no longer reflect the reality of the hi-tech on-screen communicat­ions of today’s conflicts.

The Royal Signals Motorcycle Display Team is being wound up and its members returned to normal duties after a farewell series of displays at the Chatsworth Country Fair.

John Mclelland, 31, the White Helmets’ team captain, told The Daily Telegraph: “The Royal Signals today are very much about the use of cutting-edge technology and cyber communicat­ions.

“We don’t use motorbikes to move messages around the battlefiel­d any more.”

 ??  ?? White Helmets riders from the Royal Signals performing one of their signature routines at the Chatsworth Country Fair at Chatsworth House near Bakewell, Derbyshire
White Helmets riders from the Royal Signals performing one of their signature routines at the Chatsworth Country Fair at Chatsworth House near Bakewell, Derbyshire

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