RAOC Gazette - page 160
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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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FORWARD ORDNANCE DEPOT DULMEN SINCE the last appearance of Dulmen in THE GAZETTE a lot has happened and we are now under the guiding hand of our new CO, Lieutenant Colonel Ewens; we wish him and his family a flelated welcome and a happy stay at Dulmen. Farewells are llways sad occasions and we sadly say au revoir to Lieutenant Ifolonel Camilleri and family. On to the training side the Unit summer camp was held his year at AMTC Silberhutte in the Harz Mountains and I hink I am right in saying that all personnel who attended en- nyed the activities which included climbing, abseiling, hill- falking, map reading, orienteering, NBC and First Aid. The porting side also had a few laughs, Corporal Tich Gardiner iroved that height isn't everything when he outjumped Corporal lofty Young in the volleyball competition. The orienteering fompetition had its ups and downs which is inevitable in the Jarz, when Sergeant Mick Binks found himself running up he hills, with Corporal Gardiner doing the coaching from the alleys. The coaching tactics seemed to work as Sergeant Sinks along with Staff Sergeant Graham Stanton and Sergeant Jill Wreyford won the Harz walkabout competition. As for the light life at Silberhutte Corporal Graham Smith and Lance Corporal Roy Kettyle must be congratulated on running out jf beer in the ' Fudas Carallio Club ' ! ! Congratulations to Lance Corporal Tony Blyth, Private Steve Adams and our REME contingent Craftsman John Lowry on their recent marriages, also to Lance Corporals Mark Howson and Tony Franklin and Private Ian Sellars and their wives on the recent additions to the family, another congratulatory message goes to Corporal Dave Thompson whose wife recently gave birth to a baby girl and he was granted promotion to Corporal (no connection). The Dulmen Gazette notes would not be complete without something on the sporting side and once again Sergeant Mick Binks gets a mention by winning the five thousand and fifteen hundred metres in the Travers Clarke meeting for the third successive year helping Dulmen to retain the track cup. A fine performance by Corporal Steve Lonnen, who is now at Deepcut, helped him to break his own Corps record in the eight hundred metre and Private Tim Millward won the four hundred metre cup. In the BAOR Minor Unit Championships Private Millward achieved a time of 51.7 seconds which broke the Corps record but this time will not count as it was not an RAOC meeting. The Unit cricket team deserves a mention on coming third in ihe Rhine Area League and a special thanks goes to Sergeant Vobby Clark and Corporal Alan Hughes for the work they put ii to achieve this creditable result. Congratulations to Corporal Steve Lonnen who represented jiAOR in a Anglo German athletics meeting held in JHQ Rhein- iahJen and to Staff Sergeant Colin Dewsbury who also represen- ed BAOR in the BAOR Angling Team match versus the RAF. Management Services Unit BAOR )Y" the time our notes appear in print, we shall have achieved me of the Unit objectives for 1980. Chameleon-like we change |ur title on 1st August to RAOC Management Services Unit liAOR, which will more accurately describe our multifarious lictivities in the Command. The Unit was again represented in this years RAOC BAOR Athletics Championships. We performed impeccably and as professionally as usual. The glorious six timekeepers were photographed at their event, and are from top to bottom: Captain Ian Quarrier, SSMs Dave Haugh, Sandy Bennett, John Dawson, SQMS Len Cornfield and SSM Bill Cooke. SQMS John Last has deigned to return to us in time for block leave. Three weeks on a computer course in Blandford was followed by four weeks colloquial German in Mulheim— success at which earned him £80. Subsequently this intrepid traveller has just returned from his annual duty as Camp Sergeant Major on the Nijmegen Marches. One of the marchers whispered that he was so cheerful each time they met. " Full of bonhomie and Becks," he said. At this stage of the unreasonable ' Summer,' we are thank- ing the OC, Major David Rowley, for ' suggesting ' that block leave in August would be a good thing for the Unit. Certainly, the weather can only get better. Either he has friends in high places or a 'bright' future as a weather forecaster! All on time. W u l f e n Station ^ \ OUR Hamm school children are now ^^H>cN home on holiday and Sergeant Paul Mc- JJT^^OBKK Grath our youth leader, has been busy ?Jj^^SS^HJ getting a programme organised. Some of t n e act v t es ^^^"-^""^SP^BL ' > ' include discos, ice skating, * " JjfiHFlk country hikes, .22 shooting, barbecue and manv •JMTHJKK others. The kids are in for a TJ^&niW/F Th e Sergeants Mess extension is half ^WfllfP^ way to being what the planners had ex- ^Tr"* pected it to be. The million dollar corridor, as it is commonly known by some Mess members, should be ready in Late September. Sadly, WOl Jim Wood, who has worked so hard towards this project, is now in Viersen, we were hoping he would attend the grand opening. The Lane Single Wicket Competition was held recently and a most successful day it was. We congratulate Corporals Max Bonsu on winning, and Dicky Dickinson on a keenly fought final. The Nijmegen Marchers are back. We are slightly puzzled how one can get a sore throat from marching! Nevertheless, the . thirteen team members did exceedingly well and marched past the saluting enclosure (traffic or not we missed you Sir) in good style. Their efforts which have been sponsored by most Station members will go towards a donation to the Stoke Mandeville Appeal Fund. On the athletic side a special mention to the superstars of the track. Second Lieutenant Paul Dyer, Sergeants Phil Woollard, Bob Cunningham-Norton, Paul McGrath, Corporals Mick Knox, Chris Markham, Paul Grimsley, Lance Corporal Mick Iwanciv and Private Benny Bennett who with great effort and team work managed to achieve very good results in both the RAOC BAOR and the Rhine Area Minor Units Competition. We now hope to generate further interest and build a good cross country team to steal some of the limelight from our neighbour Unit the FOD at Dulmen. To finish we say farewell to Lieutenant Colonel Holland and thank him for all his hard work towards making the FVD and 154 FAD into a closely knit and friendly Station. 154 FORWARD AMMUNITION DEPOT WULFEN at the moment is swamped and I mean swamped. We have had nothing but rain for, it seems like, forty days and forty nights. There is no truth in the rumour that the Supply Specialists in the Depot are building an ark out of pallets. Talking about pallets. Regimental Training this month took the form of a miliskills exercise, moving tactically across the Depot and swimming in full combats. (That was the river crossing). Sounds of ' squelch ' were heard for the remainder of the day. Needless to say the winning team led by Sergeant Ben (Captain Kremin) Bienkowski managed to get some wet stuff in red cans inside them. 127 — |
| Book number | R0404 |