RAOC Gazette - page 51
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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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FAREWELL TO WULFBN 154 FAD has again had to say goodbye to long serving members of its civilian work force. Herr Heinrich Peters retired after thirty one years at Wulfen where he was a civilian Ammunition Examiner for the whole of that time. He and his expertise will be much missed. A second farewell was to Herr Bruno Schitnlett after thirty four and a half years service. Otherwise affectionately known as ' Der Kleine' the knowledgeable will deduce he was a small but forceful man who as the Supervisor Ammunition Labour Pool exerted much influence on the labour force and the work of the depot. He joined 154 FAD in 1945 immediately after the war in which he served as an NCO in the German Artil- lery on both the Russian and Western fronts. Churchill and the embankment statue of the wartimc'Chicf of the Air Staff, Lord Portal—stands on a base of Portland stone at the Richmond Terrace end of Raleigh Green beside the Ministry of Defence. About twenty years ago Mr Nemon was given several sittings by the Field Marshal. The cost of over £30,000 has been met largely by friends and comrades and their widows. More than seven thousand in- dividual donations have so far been received from all over the world and the names of the donors are to be recorded in a special book which will be placed in the Imperial War Museum where ' Monty's' wartime caravans are on display. Work on the book will not begin until the end of 1980. RALLY SPECIALIST A BRIEF mention was made of Corporal Ken Black of Ord- nance Depot Viersen a while ago, in connection with his s p o r t - motor rallying. During the past year his success has been such that he deserves more space this time. His Land Rover had to go off to Workshops and for a while he had no vehicle, so he got himself a Vauxhall Chevette with a powerful 2,300 cc engine and .was back in business again. He and fellow Corpsman, Sergeant East with NATO in Brussels, entered the first round of the BAOR rally champion- ships in March, which, starting from Herford, covered a route of two hundred miles. They swept the board, finishing first, seven minutes ahead of the next vehicle and losing no penalty points. At present, they lead the championships and have been selected to represent BAOR in 1980. WOl Falcus makes a farewell presentation to Herr Bruno Schimlctt at Wulfen. P O S T H U M O U S AWARD OF THE G E O R G E MEDAL A SERGEANT in the Territorial Army who died in a tragic grenade accident has been posthumously awarded the George Medal. On 11th July 1979, during recruit training at the Senny- bridge Training Area, South Wales, Sergeant David John Garside, thirty four, a Territorial Army Senior Non-Com- missioned Officer in the 10th (Volunteer) Battalion The Para- chute Regiment, was supervising live grenade throwing. During the live grenade throwing an incident took place when a recruit, in the act of preparing to throw a live grenade, appeared to freeze with the grenade in his hand. At this point Sergeant Garside, acting with total disregard for his own safety and with great resource, tried to move the recruit to safety whilst at the same time endeavouring to get him to either throw the grenade or drop it. It was in the course of this action, whilst Sergeant Garside was pushing the recruit to safety, that the grenade exploded. As a result of the explosion Sergeant Garside sustained fatal injuries and the recruit received superficial injuries. The citation states that: " I t is clear that Sergeant Garside acted with great coolness and presence of mind, and with com- plete disregard for his own safety, and in so doing gave his life saving the life of a recruit. His act was one of great bravery, sacrifice and coolness." Sergeant Garside came from Basingstoke and was married with two children. QUEEN M O T H E R UNVEILS ' M O N T Y ' STATUE NEARLY thirty eight years after the victory of the Eighth Army at El Alamein and, appropriately, on the thirty sixth anniversary of the D-Day landings, a statue of Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery was unveiled in Whitehall by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. The ten feet tall bronze statue by Oscar Nemon—who also sculpted the House of Commons memorial to Sir Winston Corporal Ken Black with the trophies he won in 1979. Corporal Black is also lying in fifth place in the Dealer Team Vauxhall Chevette cup competition with the famous motor sport names Chris Lord, Drew Gallacher, George Hill and Chris Daley just ahead of him. TEMPLE H E R D E W Y K E THOSE of you with an interest in history will know that the land occupied by Central Ammunition Depot Kineton has some interesting links with the past. In Saxon times the area now occupied by the camp was part of a district called Derset or Dersetto; a name which indicated that the area was inhabited by wild beasts. One section of the area was called Herdewyke, possibly so named as the place where domesticated animals were enclosed for protection against predators. Herdewyke was held by three Thanes as freeholders under the Saxon Kings. After the Norman Conquest the Earl of Yellent was made feudal Lord of a large area including Derset, now called Dassett, and he appointed Terchil de Warwick as feodary Lord for the collection of taxes. In 1185 Dassett was held by Ralph de Sudley who in that year gave Herdewyke to the Order of Knights Templar. They renamed it Temple Herdewyke. For about three hundred years the village appears to have remained in possession of the Knight Templars and the Knight's Hospitallers, but after the War of the Roses Sir Edward Belknap demolished and depopulated this and other villages in order to bring all the arable land back to pasture for the rearing of sheep, as wool at that time was very profitable. Local stories have it that some sixty villagers, depleted as they were by the Black Death, were gathered at their Sunday morning worship, |
| Book number | R0404 |