RAOC Gazette - page 33
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| Corps | RAOC |
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| Full title | RAOC Gazette |
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| Publication date | 1980 |
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| Early date | 1980 |
| Late date | 1980 |
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On the sporting front our Unit football team first of all played the civilians of the Depot, and then to carry on with Anglo-German relations, were narrowly defeated by the local Stadtsparkasse team. Our new Administration Officer, Lieutenant Hayward having been with us for just a couple of weeks is now getting into the swing of things and the Chief Clerk has now packed his eighth MFO box. We welcome to the Unit Lieutenant Hayward, Lance Corporals Pye and McMurdo and Private Hatfield and say fare- well to Corporal Allen and our local ' Bleep' Corporal Stimson. Wulfen Station THE kids returned home from Hamm, the Percy Throwers are out in the Depot digging their patches, cricketers old and new are recoordinating/refurbishing their limbs, Active Edge is over, the sun is shining and the wife is away! What else could one wish for? Actually the best news this month is that all the hard work put in by the Mess Improvement Committee and Mr Jack Ferrari of our Planning Branch has not been in vain. The Sergeants Mess rebuild will go ahead after all. The workers are now in and we have moved to the cellar which is rather cosy really. We even have a new coin machine which the rest of the members can play ' whenever it is free.' The new Mess should be ready Octoberish! The month began with a most welcome rest from the ARU and although the brass monkeys were around at the time some families did brave the elements and ventured in trailer tents and caravans to the sunny south. Sunny south indeed!! Inches of snow forced some back while others lit fires and drank it's waters to keep warm. (Well, the grape version). Sergeants Mick Shaw and Frank Grech, on their return to Costa del Wulfen, headed straight for the NAAFI boutique to purchase heaters and heavy duty knickers for their next trip. The Youth Club has been very busy. Among many activities planned for them by the enigmatic Harry Fletcher and Staff Sergeant Stu Veazey, they visited the Printing Works in Recklinghausen and toured the workshops at FVD Reck- linghausen, had lunch at a German Club, visited the All Nations Library and went ice skating (well almost! Anyone knowing the whereabouts of the Ice Ring in Essen, Germany, please send route card to c/o Youth Club Wulfen). Sadly the club must say goodbye to Staff Sergeant Stu Veazey. ' Lucky Lips' is leaving Wulfen for Hong Kong. We wish him well and thank him for all his hard work during his time as club leader. On the sport scene a strange new disease has hit Wulfen Station since the arrival of. the Crawford family in February. The sport marching craze has gripped many of the Station members in its icy fingers. Families are well represented on the marches the more numerous of these being WOl Denis ' Hasher' Falcus, W02 Paddy Grey, Sergeant Bob Cunning- ham-Norton and Staff Sergeant Barry Milburn. We have even managed to try out some of the less eligible volunteers like Lance Corporal ' Why M e ' Gallacher and Private ' Geordie' Lowden. The hockey team played in the DOS Cup at Munster and although favourites to win, were knocked out in the semi finals by FOD Dulmen on their ground—we blame W02 Percy de Souza he kept harassing us from the touch line! How's that for good sportsmanship? Really though they played better on the day. 154 FORWARD AMMUNITION DEPOT THE ARU having come and gone, one would have thought that they would have had enough marching but at least it keeps WOl John Crawford's followers out of the clutches of Sergeant Paddy McGrath, our masochistic long distance runner. The only absentees would seem to be Sergeant Mick Shaw and the Military accountant, Sergeant Frank Grech who found the only mud flats, a camping site in the Mosel, on which to spend the Easter Break. Some might say that the change in the weather has been brought about by the sight of Goldring's Geriatrics once again making for the nets. Who did steal the cricket mat by the way? The soccer team plods on but rugby, seemingly defunct, made a welcome come back when a Unit side, aided by ' Corporals' Falcus and Goldring won the Rhine Area Seven's plate competition. Needless to say Major Wes Thomas' Am- munition Wing won the Inter Departmental tournament—in spite of bribes offered the referee by the ATO. We welcome to the Unit, Private ' Geordie' Lowden (belatedly), Private Whitehead from Kineton and Sergeant and Mrs McGrath from ACIO Middlcsborough. Congratulations arc due to Lance Corporal Jock Gallacher on his substantive pro- motion to that rank and Lance Corporal ' Spark' Thomas on acting promotion. 1st British Corps C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S this m o n t h to Staff Sergeant John Jackson on his marriage to Sieglindc. He has gained a wife and suffered a severe de- crease in his bank balance. Good and bad news for the Material Branch this month. First the good news, Congratulations to Sergeant John Pascoc on passing three subjects of his EPC(A) at the first attempt. Now the bad news, Sergeant John Pascoe's car was viciously at- tacked by an ambulance, damage to the car DM 1300. Staff Sergeant Barric Fisk's car was locally modified by a Renault resulting in damage to the value of DM2100, both cars on SI list and arc currently awaiting admission to the 'body shop.' WOl Tony Mottram can now be seen thumbing lifts as he refuses to take his four week old car out of its garage. Remember this year's insurance claims always reflect in next year's premiums! Welcome Captain Gillott and his wife Helen, we wish them both well during their tour in Bielefeld. » M^ £ ^ ^M ^ ^ ^^£ ^^^ ^H||^7 ^B ^r ^^m ^m STAFF CLERKS. G Intelligence and Survey is our featured branch this month. Up here in the attic where members of the ground floor staff think we wear oxygen masks, we are all working as hard as usual. We being: Staff Sergeant Pete Preston, Corporal Gary Middleton, Lance Corporal Mark Gore and last but not least Private Paddy Burnett. Corporal Middleton has just returned from leave in sunny West Yorkshire and no doubt will be looking forward to settling back into his desk in G Survey. Lance Corporal Gore will be disappearing for a week quite soon for the annual Summer Camp aptly named Exercise Paperbreak. Over the other side of the office is G Intelligence where Private Burnett is settling in to the Branch very well since his move from Ordnance Branch late last year. (A turn for the best). On darker days he keeps the office cheerful with his witty comments, like when the Chief Clerk asked him if he had this years diary his reply was " Yes Staff but it only goes up to December." ~ We bid welcome to three new officers- in the Branch: Major Stone Derr, Major Rutherford R. Signals and Captain Clarke 16/5L. We also welcome Staff Sergeant Ron Carr, Private Mick O'Hara and our two new WRAC girls Privates Yvonne Martin and Eileen Supple. Congratulations go to Sergeant Jim Kelly, Corporals Rick Kendal and Chaz Potts on receiving their substantive rank and to Lance Corporal Bob Pullan on his recent promotion. Corporal Rick Kendal has moved from R and D to try his hand in G Air and Private Jack Lemon has moved to G Operations and we wish them luck, in their new jobs. A 1st Armoured Division HEADQUARTERS RAOC THIS month sees many changes at the Headquarters with postings in and out and several changes of job for branch personnel. We said goodbye to Staff Sergeant Alan Cowlishaw and his family on their posting to Berlin and hoped that we had seen the last of his particular brand of fitness fanaticism but, alas, it was not to be, his replacement Sergeant Dick Goodfield has previously represented his Unit at various athletic events, and hopes to continue to do so during his stay with us. That resident optimist, Lance Corporal Jock Falconer has been transferred to the Adjutants Office in preparation to take over as Operations Corporal from Corporal George Henry. He assumes that taking over a Corporals vacancy means automatic — 24 — |
| Book number | R0404 |