RAOC Gazette - page 49
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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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Transportation, Longmoor for six months as the Ordnance member of the planning staff for Exercise Pablo 5 which took place in Holland in 1965. In January 1966 he took up an appointment as DAAG AG9 and eighteen months later was posted to COD Chilwell on promotion for training in computer programming. He was Master Programmer at Chilwell until December 1969 when he was moved to Bicester as Master Programmer (Ammunition) on the new computer. In November 1971 he was promoted to Colonel and took over the appointment of OIC Implementation at CSDW. A year later he was moved to London as Colonel Ord 1. He was promoted to Brigadier and took up the appointment of Inspector RAOC in June 1975, a year later he was moved to the Central Inventory Control Point as Controller and in Novem- ber 1976 was re-designated Director of Supply Management (Army). He assumed his last appointment as Deputy Director General of Ordnance Services in June 1978. Bernard Biggs set high standards wherever he went and his sage counsel will be sadly missed. An officer of great charm, who did much to enhance the reputation of the Corps; we will all miss him and I am sure the large number of friends he and Elizabeth have made during their years with the Corps will join me in wishing them both good health, success and much happiness in the future. JB fox tfie &etorta BIRTHDAY HONOURS OBE Lieutenant Colonel W. J. Scoging MQE Lieutenant Colonel I. G. Thomas Captain J. A. McGrellis W02 G. J. Arscott BEM Staff Sergeant R. Abrams Staff Sergeant N. P. Grace Staff Sergeant W. G. Rule Sergeant P. J. Bedford Sergeant M. E. Mullany (WRAC) Sergeant J. Jones Corporal P. K. Langan THE RETIREMENT BRIGADIER B. R. OF BIGGS BRIGADIER BERNARD BIGGS retired from the Active List in June to take up the appointment of Secretary and Registrar of Portsmouth Polytechnic College, after a long and distinguished career which started in 1947. In 1950 he was granted a Regular Commission in the RAOC, and after a tour of duty as a Company Commander with 15 Battalion he was given command of a Mobile Industrial Gas Unit in UK and later in the Canal Zone. He was recalled to UK in 1953 to attend the twenty-fifth Ordnance Officers' Course and on completion he was posted to London as a Staff Captain in Ord 1. In 1955 he qualified as an Ammunition Technical Officer and was posted to command a detachment of Western Com- mand Ammunition Inspectorate. In October 1957 he was posted to Singapore and became Staff Captain in Ord 5. Whilst there he sat and passed the Staff College examination and returned to the UK in 1959 to attend Staff College the following year. CCRAOC AFTER many tries and much staffing effort, the Corps has at last managed to obtain agreement to change the appointment title.'DDOS' to ' C C R A O C ' in 1st British Corps. With effect from 28th May 1980, Brigadier John Skinner became the first ' Corps Commander Royal Army Ordnance Corps' and his staff now belong to ' Headquarters, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, 1st British Corps' rather than ' Ord Branch.' The board in the corridor in Block 9 in Ripon Barracks, Bielefeld, will now have a major amendment so for the record I thought that it would be appropriate to publish in THE GAZETTE the list of Senior Officers who have held the former appoint- ment of Deputy Director of Ordnance Services, 1st British Corps and whose names appear on the board: 1966 Brigadier L. A. Coates 1951 Colonel T. G. Gore DSO, MBE. OBE. 1952 Colonel C. 1968 Brigadier N. H. Speller. Arnold-Edwards OBE. 1970 Brigadier D. K. Allen 1953 Colonel V. D. F. MBE. Tarrant OBE. 1972 Brigadier J. C. Moore 1956 Colonel H. A. Brakes MBE. OBE. 1974 Brigadier G. E. 1958 Colonel R. M. N. . Dennison OBE. Patrick. 1976 Brigadier P. G. 1961 Colonel H. R. Alden. Macdonald. 1963 Colonel N. G. Kenney 1978 Brigadier W. L. OBE. Whalley. 1965 Brigadier N. G. Kenney 1980 Brigadier J. H. Skinner. OBE. A Brigadier Biggs (right) at a recent recruiting convention. From the Staff College he was posted to Headquarters 39 Brigade in Northern Ireland and later became DAQMG at Headquarters Northern Ireland Command. At the end of that tour he moved to- CAD Longtown as Planning and Work Study Officer. During his time there he was attached to the School of BREAK IN THE CHAIN LIEUTENANT COLONEL F. N. WEBSTER has retired after almost thirty one years service. The Webster family have been associated with the Corps for over one hundred years, Frank's father, grandfather and great-grandfather having all served as armourers. Frank joined the Army as an Apprentice Tradesman at Harrogate. On leaving Harrogate, in 1951; he was posted to RAOC Boys Training at Haslar Barracks, Gosport, to continue his boys service as. he had not yet attained the qualifying age for man's service. At Gosport he was promoted to the rank of Boy Sergeant Major. Late in 1952 he was posted to the RAOC Training Centre in the rank of Lance Corporal (this must be a record, he was never a Private!). In 1961 whilst at CAD Corsham he was awarded a Queens Commendation for Brave Conduct for his efforts at Barry Docks when he became involved with a consignment of highly dangerous forty millimetre ammunition which was awaiting sea-dumping. Initially, Frank intends to remain in Belgium where his wife, an American citizen, is a teacher in the USA Section of the SHAPE International School. In 1981 he plans to emmigrate to the USA where he hopes to make a living restoring antiques. — 34 — |
| Book number | R0404 |