RAOC Gazette - page 6
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| Corps | RAOC |
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| Material type | Journals |
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| Full title | RAOC Gazette |
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| Publication date | 1980 |
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| Colour | Yes |
| Grey | No |
| Early date | 1980 |
| Late date | 1980 |
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THE STAFF BAND APPEAL THE draw for the Staff Band Appeal took place at Andover with the DGOS present. The following is the list of prize winners: — Major Ward, Headquarters 1 (BR) Corps; Corporal Fleck, 10 Ordnance Support Battalion: Lieutenant Colonel Phillips, SO/VAG MOD; Corporal Thomas, Ludgershall: Lance Corporal Littlejohn, Ludgershall; Captain Wilberforce, Chil- well: WOl Mottram, 1 (BR) Corps; Sergeant Gay, Chilwell; W02 Greenway, Deepcut; Major Davies, Chilwell; Sergeant Walker, Northern Ireland; Private Beard, Chilwell; Captain iRigg, TA RAOC; Corporal Williamson, Ludgershall; 49 RP 'Company Junior Ranks; Major Cook, Chilwell; Lance Corporal . Plunkett. 2 Division Ordnance Company; A / T Todd, Chep- istow; Private Wilcox, 45 Field Regiment; Major Cheesemore. | DLSA; Private Guthrie, Ashchurch ; Private Kilcoyne, 3 Division (Ordnance Company; Private Murdoch, 12 Armoured Work- j shop: Major Hellings, DLSA. i The sum of £6,400 was raised. PARTING PRESENTATION MAJOR FRED TAYLOR has retired from Coypool. He is currently on holiday in PortugaJ before returning to his home in Jersey where he and his wife are running a small Guest House. Our photograph shows Major Taylor with his staff and CRAOC South West District, Colonel J. Harverson, present- ing him with his Stuart Crystal Decanter, a farewell gift from the RAOC Officers in the District. We wish Fred and his wife every success and happiness in their new life. To retirement in Jersey. i j I | 1 A CORPS FAMILY MRS ANNE GORMLEY who retired from Bicester recently is part of a family which has been associated with the Corps, in both military and civilian capacities, for some two hundred years. Anne's father-in-law, John Gormley, joined the Army Ordnance Corps in 1897 in County Kildare. He was one of a large family. John went to South Africa to serve with the Union Defence Force and took part in the Boer War at Pieter- maritzburg. His trade was wheelwright and he completed his service in 1922 as a Sub-Conductor. John's family consisted of three boys and two girls: Jack, Ron (Anne's late husband), Tom, Lucy and Kathleen. Jack joined the RAOC in 1929 at the age of eighteen and went to Hilsea Barracks, Portsmouth for his basic training. He was eventually commissioned and left the Army in 1948. Jack was a Civilian Stores Officer Grade 2 when Branston closed in the early 1960s and was posted to Bicester in 1963. Ron Gormley joined the RAOC as a boy of fourteen in 1926 at Bramley and was a 'Boy Badge.' In 1930 he went to Hilsea Barracks, Portsmouth, and was posted to Shanghai in 1933. He came back to the UK in 1936 and to Catterick. In 1938 Ron married Anne in Hawick. Ron and Anne were posted to Arborfield in May 1939 and then on to the Records Office, Hilsea Barracks, Portsmouth, in 1940. He was commissioned in the field in France just after D-Day. Because of family illness and other commitments Ron decided to leave the Army in 1946. He went to Longtown as a Stores Superintendent and took part in the re-organisation of the Storage there. Ron remained in Longtown until 1950 when he was posted to Vehicle Depot, Paisley as an Ordnance Civilian Officer, until the Depot closed in 1958. He was a founder member of the Corps Association at Longtown and also held office in Paisley. In 1958 Ron was transferred to Donnington and, due to ill health, died there in 1963. When Tom Gormley was fifteen there were no vacancies in the RAOC so he joined the Royal Tank Corps at Bovington as a boy trumpeter in 1930. Tom was commissioned whilst serving with the 11th Hussars and retired as a Major (QM) in 1965. He came to COD Bicester as a civilian worker in 1970 and worked in Traffic Branch and Printing Section before retiring in 1978. Lucy Gormley married a Jock McQueen who had been a ' Queen Victoria ' boy, (ie attended the famous School in Scot- land). Jock had joined the RAOC in 1925 and he retired as a Major in 1966 at the age of fifty five. Kathleen Gormley. strangely enough, did not marry anyone associated with RAOC but married her husband whilst he was serving with the RAF. After a'full career, he retired as a Warrant Officer. Anne Gormley's eldest son, Brian, left school and joined the RAOC in 1956. He did his basic training in Blackdown and was posted to Bicester in 1957. He later transferred into the 11th Hussars. Brian was one of the first soldiers to serve in a Chieftain Tank during the trial period. He was awarded the BEM in 1967. In February 1979 he retired from the Army as a Warrant Officer and is now serving with the MOD Police. All the Gormley's who served in the Army have received the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal. Anne Gormley now lives at 32 Windle Gardens, King's End. Bicester, and her telephone number is Bicester 41565. She would be extremely pleased if any old friends of the family would like to keep in touch with her. SSAFA CHRISTMAS MARKET 1980 THE SSAFA Christmas Market 1980 is to be held at Chelsea Barracks on Wednesday, 26th November. Once again, the Corps has been asked to run the Tombola Stall which has met with such great success in previous years. The DGOS has written to all the Senior Officers of the Corps in the UK to ask for their support, and a letter from Mrs Brown has been sent to many Corps wives. If readers who are now retired—or are serving outside the Corps, would like to make monetary contributions or gifts to the Stall, these would be gratefully received. The Corps Sub- Committee for the Market would be delighted with any gift but would particularly like chocolates, cigarettes, wines, packed biscuits, and toiletries. Contributions of all kinds are required by 20th October at the latest |
| Book number | R0404 |