RAOC Gazette - page 30
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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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J5eto£ from Hbroab Headquarters Northern Army Croup if II "HEADQUARTERS N O R T H A G " who are they you may say. It is difficult to discover from back numbers of THE GAZETTE available in this Headquarters, when we last had a mention. However, with our new Staff Officer AG, Major Houseman, pressing Chief Clerks in turn to put this right, hopefully we will have a regular monthly article in the future. We will try to give a short note on each of the main Divisions over the coming months with G l / G 5 being the lucky ones this time. However, one or two moves are scheduled in the coming months and are worthy of mention as the people involved will have moved on by the time this article is published: WOl Terry Williams to Bulford, Sergeant Don Taylor to Belize, Corporal Dave Lepage to Headquarters BAOR (via RPC1), Corporal Bob Haynes to Headquarters Rhine Area and Corporal Roger King to Hereford. Staff Sergeant Ken Quinn also deserves a men- tion (and a few other things) for his efforts in organising the various football fixtures. Hard luck Ken on being outclassed by the Transport Company in the ' Six-a-Side ' competition. Now for the G1/G5 band of fugitives: Major Jim House- man (who else would report on horseback) our only RAOC Officer, W 2 Doug Boshier the Chief Clerk, and the workers— Staff Sergeant Tony Grace, Sergeant Jim Milligan, Lance Corporals George Grant, Paul Snowdon, Bill Currie, Steve McKelvie and Marvin Bargrove. A mention should be made of the Superintendent Clerk WOl Dave Barron although not really a member of the Division he is associated more with G1/G5 than the other divisions in the Headquarters. Special congratulations must go to Lance Corporal George Grant, not only for his well deserved promotion but on his forthcoming marriage to Denise. Beware Front Office, you are next, you won't escape by fleeing RMA. ^*-.£l Frau Erna Wisser well known to many who have served in BAOR. to take over from W02 Johnston as Chief Clerk Organisation and Plans. Frau Ema Wisser, vehicle clerk in S Man Branch and well known to so many who have served in BAOR, has com- pleted thirty years service with the British Forces in Germany. She first joined Headquarters BAOR at Bad Oeynhausen and has spent nearly all of her time with Ordnance Directorate. She has worked on the supply of tens of thousands of vehicles and has trained many members of the Corps in the mystique of vehicle provision. To mark her thirtieth year of service, S Man Branch held a dinner and presentation in her honour. We are sure that her many friends in the Corps and throughout BAOR will join us in thanking her for her continuing cheerful and devoted service. Colonel Harry Brown recently welcomed yet another transferee to the Corps. This time it was a loss to the Gunners, Sergeant Gary Brindle, who is currently employed in Head- quarters Rheindahlen Garrison pending posting in October. Headquarters BAOR BRIGADIER PETER CRAWLEY, our DOS for the last three and a half years, has now departed for the UK. He was dined out by the Directorate Officers at the 3 BAD Mess; we wish him a happy tour as Director Base Depots. Brigadier Bill Whalley our new DOS has returned to familiar ground in the JHQ building. Two members of Combat Supplies Branch have received awards for service in Northern Ireland—W02 Ian Grey the QGM and WOl Pete Green a MID. Our sincere congratulations to both of them. It was with regret that we said goodbye to Herr Herbert Reinicke of Ord 7 (Food). Herr Reinicke has been working for the British Army since 1945 and his wealth of experience will be a great loss to the Branch. We wish him a happy retire- ment. Organisation and Plans Branch will have even further changes of staff in the next few weeks. After fairly short tours we lose W 2 Sam Johnston on promotion and posting to MOl in the MOD. Lance Corporal Andy Clegg is to be attached to Defence Sales for a tour by sea which includes visits to the Middle and Far East. Even the trip from Dover to Ostende turns him green so let us hope he will have gained his sea legs by the time his attachment ends. W02 John Todd has moved downstairs from A Branch — Ammunition Inspectorate BAOR OUR main feature of note this month has been the Unit accommodation move. Although the total distance is all of two hundred metres, the old hands amongst you will nod wisely and acknowledge that distance is practically irrelevant when it comes down to evaluating the workload. The organisation from the Unit was slick and fast and any nasties crawling out of long standing cupboards were successfully relost before anyone got curious. Our new abode is directly below the Sergeants Mess and there were more than a few startled faces looking out on a squad of WOsl humping heavy looking fittings off smelly lorries. With the courage of the British, not demonstrated since the war years, we all proceeded to sit on our own heap of rubble and get on with it. Volunteer work over the weekend left us with everything in place and the only major task remaining the preparation of the new Unit club—sorry ' Duty team Operations Room.' Ex-members of this Inspectorate will be sad to hear of the passing of the ' Duck and Shovel.' The club is to be re-named the ' Pig and Stick.' A new in(n) name. With superb timing the painters arrived just as things over here began to look tidy and the smell of paint has all but driven us back across the road. Still, everything should be normal once we get the telephones in, perhaps by about Christmas. 21 — |
| Book number | R0404 |