RAOC Gazette - page 117
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| Publication date | 1980 |
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| Early date | 1980 |
| Late date | 1980 |
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before the parade! Our thanks are due to Major Pedersen and Lieutenant Moesgaard, OC and AO respectively of the host Company, for so much hard work put in on our behalf. The Unit tug-of-war teams have been going from strength to strength once again. Trained and coached by Major Bob Reid, the teams walked off with all the prizes at the RAOC (BAOR) Athletics meeting in Sennelager. Four teams entered, defeating all-comers and being both winners and runners-up in the five hundred and sixty and six hundred and forty kilo- gram events. Our picture shows the team with CRAOC, Lieutenant Colonel Jackson and OC, Major Green. , / K ' &%** **7*/ w &•/ j'S/**.** "item ^HBaiv^. 4/ **i4 ~ W {!-*: if. t 4 P .'.$-«.»?.* i—i i-r! y*n The victorious tug-of-war team. Courses seem to be numerous these days. Many soldiers have passed their respective B2 and Bl courses, as well as RPC2 and 1 and EPC/EPC(A). But special mention must be made of Private ' Budgie ' Rawson—he did the quickest 'jump' of his life by moving from B3 to Bl Sup Clerk in two weeks! The CQMS, Staff Sergeant Taylor, reminded me for the ump- teenth time that all Paras can hack it! On the families side we congratulate Corporal Livingstone on his recent marriage. Sergeant Sale, Lance Corporal Streets and Private Shotton have all caused additions to the population —congratulations too (I'm told Sale junior has more hair than his father, which is quite believeable!). We've had many postings in and out recently. Farewells go to Lieutenant Stein (who is off to the ATO Course with a heap of unsellable cars), Corporals Balsdon, Brown G. C , and Green, Lance Corporals Bowyer ACC, Smithurst REME and Rees, and Privates Brown (Siggy), Curzon and Leach ACC. Private Taffy Miles has retired to his native Glasgow (or some- where in Wales) while Lance Corporal Winter and Privates Black M, and O'Brien have been cross-posted to 12 Armoured Workshop. Lance Corporal Plunkett and Private Spillings are still idling in BATUS, we believe. Arrivals are Corporals Hope and Flowers (the latter on promotion), Lance Corporals Whittaker, Streets and Smith and Privates Walker, Wood, Holmes and Sanders. Lance Corporal Schofield has come on detachment from 3 Para in order to transfer—we wish him the best of luck in the Corps. STORES PLATOON 12 ARMOURED WORKSHOP HELLO again from the glorious twelfth where the troops have returned from the Northern Ireland Roulement Workshop and are waving their medals at the rear-party and boring them with war stories. (It must have been rough in the Spanner Club.) Seriously though, those who were on the Operation Banner tour should have a mention; as we forgot them last time. Located at Sydenham, Belfast, was Captain Mike Roycroft, W02 George Down, Sergeants Mick Moore and Dave Reece, Corporals Jim Duncan and Mick Berger, Lance Corporal Allen Speed, Privates Tony Hicks, Ted Heffer, Jim Ross, Mac Mc- Lauchlan and Chalky White. Across the airfield at Moscow Camp was Corporal Gaz Brown; up at Long Kesh (the Work- shop, not the nick) was Corporal Jock Low, Lance Corporals Dave Tressler and Benny Peart; while last but not least was Corporal Joe Flowers up at the sharp end in Fort George, Londonderry. We had a quiet and uneventful tour, the only injury being to a REME driver who was bitten on the nose by a guard dog. The dog had a tetanus injection and is now doing well. Worthy of mention is Private Ted Heffer, who played football for RAOC Northern Ireland at Bicester; his performance both on and off the field was excellent. Also to be mentioned are Corporal Gaz" Brown, Lance Corporals Allen Speed and Benny Peart, who were attached to us for the tour from 2nd Division Ordnance Company; they certainly helped the tour to go with a bang. (Not literally, then PIRA don't do bombs by contract.) Several people have made the big bid for freedom; amongst them is Captain Mike Roycroft who is replaced by Captain Steve Monk, and W02 (now WOl) George Down who is replaced by W02 Smudge Smith. Sergeants Dave Reece and Jim Munday have been replaced by Sergeants Ian McArthur and Mick Stewart, and Sergeant Ken Franklin has departed to the Complete Surprise Battalion. He is replaced by Sergeant Pete Busutill. Our CRB clerkess, Karen, has left us for the wilds of Munster, after handing over to Jayne, who says her husband is NOT Tarzan. This article will not be complete without a mention of the members of the Platoon who paraded with the Workshop when the Garrison received the freedom of the city of Osnabruck. (No, that doesn't mean that the soldiery are allowed back into the 99 club or the Liberty.) Seriously, it was the first time that a complete Garrison has been given the freedom of any city, previously this honour has been conferred only on individual Units. (The photograph was not enclosed with your notes.— Editor) 87 SUPPLY DEPOT THIS month has seen the arrival and departure of 5 Supply Platoon (V) TA on their annual training. It was an enjoyable period by both hosts and guests, culminating in a successful farewell party. The OC is currently enjoying two weeks leave in Austria, under the belief that the Second-in-Command, Captain Chris Rowland is holding the fort. What he does not know is that the Second-in-Command has been called away on a seven day exercise and we, the remaining slaves, are trying to have a quiet time of it. Unfortunately, he, the Second-in-Command, left us all so much to do, we are wondering if life is easier with officer presence than without it! The end of an era has arrived as we have said farewell to the two remaining mainstays of the Depot. Sergeant Dave Baker has departed for Lubbecke on the Long Service List and Sergeant Graham Mullarkey has gone to Bielefeld. We wish them and their families good fortune in their new posts. Congratulations go to Brian 'Blue Eyes' Scott on his promotion to Staff Sergeant and we wish him well in his ' new' post (that being a years extension with us—hope you like it Brian). We welcome Corporal Stark and family who have joined us from 3 BAD, and hope their stay will be a happy one. 5 Field Force ^ ^ ^ ORDNANCE ^•Rfew^ COMPANY ^ K / H J L ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ - TWENTY members of ^ B w % t ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ _ the Unit under the ^M/Sari^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^. guidance of Captain V ^ g ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ' Burr and W02 GeoS •REM^L^^^^R^^^^^^ Collinge went off to R£^^2^^^^^ Bavaria under the ^ guise of adventure training. Geoff Collinge made all sorts of plans as to how he was going to enjoy himself but when the party arrived in Gunzesried-Sag he found himself chief administrator, the reason for which is best left unsaid. The party returned with the normal ' war stories' and high praise for the Royal Military Police who hosted them. The OC with his party of Sergeant Ron Eden, Privates Scotty McNairn, Wayne Kenyon and Tom Hawken, the Second- in-Command, W02 Geoff Collinge and Sergeant Dave Jamieson have all gone away on Exercise Javelin. Dave Jamieson when informed he was doing watchkeeper on the exercise went im- mediately to the QM stores to sign out a stop watch. It will be some time before he lives it down. Sergeant Jack Frost has returned from the South of France after being taken to the cleaners by the local banditos. The CSM Brian Scribbins has returned from a Fire Officers course and can now be seen checking the Unit lines for fire risks. Private Wayne Kenyon maintains he still wants to be a Radio Operator but the hierarchy have other ideas. Although June is a relatively quiet month we find ourselves drawing near to Vogelsang. For the uninitiated Vogelsang is a big training area run by the Belgian Army and many British Army Units carry out their — 92 — |
| Book number | R0404 |