RAOC Gazette - page 115
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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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Our kindergarten is now under new management. Mrs Kathleen Crowshaw and Mrs Rosemary Burns have taken charge of the tots. We say farewell to Mrs Joan (AAYE!) Goodenough and Mrs Freda Batty. Thank you ladies for all your hard work. Our NAAFI shop manager, Harry Fletcher and his wife Lynn left us last week for Bergelen where Harry has taken over bigger responsibilities! We welcome Mr Trevor Underwood and his wife Hilary from JHQ Shop Rheindahlen and wish them a happy stay in Wulfen. The marchers are still marching behind the leading foot of WOl John Crawford. His team for the Nijmegen march leave Wulfen next month and will be picked from the following: Second Lieutenant Dyer, W02 Paddy Grey, Staff Sergeant Barry (Estate Warden) Milburn, Staff Sergeant Mick Morrison, Sergeants Ginge Farrelly, Bob Norton, Brum Gilmartin, Paul McGrath, Dick Peacocke, Corporals Jock Gallacher and Michael Cuthbert, Lance Corporals Spark Thomas, Bob Harvey, Gaz O'Hara, Privates Geordie Lauden, Mark Shaw and Benny~ Bennett. To finish I will obey the warning NOT to mention Station Cricket or the Regimental Dinner for that matter. You will have to take my word for it that they do have something in common. 154 FORWARD AMMUNITION DEPOT THE rigours of Vogelsang are over. A small portion of the soldiers have slipped off on leave and a greater portion are supporting 19 Field Regiment RA as part of the Rhine Area Reinforcement Detachment No. 9. These are: Second Lieu- tenant Roy Dade, Corporal Phil Warden, Lance Corporals Chris Betmead and Bob Stokoe, Privates Bob Print, Ray Shepherd, ' Huggy Bear' Hayward and last and definitely least ' Smiler' Roberts. They are learning all the rudiments of survival. Back to Vogelsang, the exercises went off very well and everybody came back looking browned off or is it tanned?. We even had the opportunity of learning the importance of wearing a life jacket when practising canoeing on grass! African man eating grass you see. Your actual Orderly Room Sergeant and Military Account- ant have returned from being heducated?. The former has mastered writing and the latter counting! The one disadvantage is that we now need both of them together to write up a bill! Congratulations to Lance Corporal Jock Gallacher on pro- motion to Acting Corporal and Private Gaz O'Hara on pro- motion to Lance Corporal and Lance Corporal and Mrs Ayres on the addition of a baby son. The wife of our resident ATO slipped off to Aldershot to bring to this world her first offspring who turned out to be Andrew Peter, Captain Malcolm Buchanan has sneaked .off to Northern Ireland for an emergency tour. He can certainly organize things when he wants to—did you take a life jacket? Sir! We welcome to sunny Wulfen Private and W/Private Baxendale. Our first WRAC (her not him) and Private John McGuillan. We say farewell to Corporals Napolitano, Jock Gibson and Wigs Wiggell, Lance Corporal and Mrs Forrest and Lance Corporal and Mrs Day. Good luck to you all in your new posting. 1st- British Corps HEADQUARTERS GSD is our featured branch this month. The clerks of GSD have just returned from Exercise ' Paper Break' (our exercise fiendishly designed by Headquarters Regiment in order that clerks can enjoy that rarest of treats ' Fresh Air 'j where they were to be seen leaping from heli- copters, over assault courses, and generally enjoy- ing themselves to the full. No sooner had we returned from Exercise Paper Break than we were pitched into the barren waste of Hildesheim on Exercise Javelin. At the time of writing I am crouching in my storm ravaged tent braving the elements of wind and rain. RAOC clerks have of course no problem coping with this sort of problem and the battle is being fought with great vigour. We have in the past month said goodbye to Mick Hulme who has moved to the empire of R and D on promotion to Lance Corporal and we congratulate him on his promotion and wish him well in his new appointment. In his place we wel- come Private Mick O'Hara who has moved upstairs to us from R and D. The SD2 warriors, Sergeant Tony O'Doherty and Lance Corporal Steve Donoghue are continuing to do an excellent job and are I understand looking forward to attacking the pile of paper that will be awaiting all of us when we return to Bielefeld. In SD1 Corporal Mick (what about my renleave) Hopkins has managed to get his car through the BFG Test at last. The Chief Clerk SD1, Staff Sergeant Gerry Trottier, who is penning these notes anonymously, is of course well in control (but of what!! !). A mention must be given to our WRAC clerks, Lance Corporal Linda Monk who works in SD2 and Corporal Heather Jones who works in SDL We congratulate Heather on her recent marriage (her maiden name is Mitchell) and wish her well for the future. Fortunately, because I have nothing further to say, the battle calls and I must return to the front once again. Congratulations to Staff Sergeant Bill Rule, PA to COS, and Sergeant Pete Bedford, formally of AQ Operations, on receiving the British Empire Medal in the Queen's Birthday Honours List. 1st Armoured Division A HEADQUARTERS LAST year the Staff Branch Charity Angling Match was arranged by Corporal Trevor Savory, however, this year the organisation was left to Corporal Bob Bland. The match was held on the River t Weser, just outside of Verden. The results ^^___ were not as good as expected, this was put rtSliS^-rgyjSrlr down to the continual stream of river ** ^ » * E — *> traffic and the hot weather. The team did however manage to collect DM436 for the Haig Fund and we would like to thank all the sponsors. Corporal Bob Bland, Lance Corporal Bill Musson and Corporal Trevor Savory took first, third and fourth places respectively, the other places were taken by other members of the Head- quarters. ORDNANCE COMPANY THIS month has been action packed for the Ordnance Company starting with our Summer Camp. This years' Summer Camp was held among the vineyards and rambling hills of the Mosel Valley. The weather was kind to us and endless blue skies provided us with an excellent basis for canoeing, hill walking and abseiling. We also staged several Platoon competitions which included athletics, potted sports, orienteering, an escape and evasion exercise and an exhausting hill race. Congratulations go to 2 Platoon under the able direction of Lieutenant Alan Goldie and Sergeant John Corless for an overall first in the competition. Well done 1 Platoon, guided by Second Lieutenant Richard Greathead and Sergeant Steve Duke, for providing such stiff opposition. Privates Paul and Ann Baxendale the first serving couple to be On the Sporting Field the Company has, once more been stationed at Wulfen. very active. • The Shooting Team excelled themselves on the 4th and 5th of June at our Divisional Meeting where they came first in the SLR, SMG and Pistol Shoots and second in the LMG Shoot. They were overall winners of the Minor Unit Athletics entered two meetings 90 coming — Competition. overall fifth The in the RAOC Team Athletics at Sennelager on |
| Book number | R0404 |