RAOC Gazette - page 188
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| Publication date | 1980 |
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portant that these young men are able to attend training in future years to benefit from this years hard work and achieve- ments. Well done to the young members, but also let's not forget our older ones, noteably Major John Fox whose score of one hundred and seventy four was the highest in the teams. SHOOTING REPORT 1980 RASAM. From those RAOC Units qualified for the Army Meet- ing in the Minor Unit Championship the final placings are: — CVD Ashchurch fifteenth, 10 Ordnance Support Battalion eighteenth, COD Chilwell twenty first, CAD Kineton twenty seventh and 3 ADOC thirty third. Number of entries thirty five. Unfortunately we only managed to get one RAOC member into the Army one hundred this year and congratulations go to Captain Wheeler on this achievement. METHUEN. Resulting from a very good response from Units to the request to release our good and potentially good shots the Corps managed to boast a training squad of twelve which in- cluded personnel from BAOR. Considering a number of unforeseen snags none the least our British Summer, or more to the point, the lack of it, training went off extremely well. Although let down on some range fixtures, we did finally manage to practice the full three weeks with most of the train- ing taking place at Bisley. We are very grateful to our REME friends for allowing us to share their ranges for a week at Bordon. The morale of the squad remained very high throughout al- though faced with regular daily soakings. Thankfully we all seemed to be able to dry out before the next morning. Competitions for the six team places was fierce and was in fact not decided until the day before the event using perform- ances achieved during the Army meeting. One sad note however was that of Sergeant Smith'..of the Training Battalion. A very good shot, and his selection into the team was never in doubt, that was until he broke two ribs in the last few days of training. Even then there was hope he could continue. But it was not to be. Hopefully he has now recovered and ribs repaired. We look forward-to his presence in the squad next year. The day was drier than most we had already experienced but the wind was up and blowing well from left to right. Formed up on the firing point with their rifles for in- spection were the 1980 RAOC Methuen team: Major Fox, Kineton: Captain Wheeler, Ashchurch; Sergeant Catterall, ETS Deepcut; Corporal Poole, 10 Ordnance Support Battalion; Corporal Bolton, 4 ADOC; and Corporal Mullen, Donnington. The reserve was Sergeant Smith, Deepcut (with ribs well strapped). Behind, watching and waiting eagerly for the event to get underway were some twenty or more supporters including our chairman Brigadier Short, our vice chairman Lieutenant Colonel Marshall and our secretary Major Ford. There was also a number of the teams wives and friends, and several ex-Corps members who manage to turn up each year to support us. Either side of the firing point were thirty three other teams from the three Services and in addition, teams from the Canadian Forces, Malay Regiment, Zimbabwe Forces and the Gurkhas. Shooting commenced with the first of the four practices, the Five hundred yards Deliberate. In this we achieved two hundred and forty six points from an HPS of three hundred. The highest score along the range was two hundred and sixty seven and the lowest one hundred and eighty three. Next came the fire with fnovement practice, five hundred yards to one hundred yards. With Bisley ranges resting under what must be the biggest puddle in the world it was obvious the movement part was to be more aliened to a swimming event and certainly in favour of the Navy competitors. All wet and soggy and from an HPS of three hundred we managed two hundred and thirty on this practice with the highest on this range two hundred and fifty eight and the lowest one hundred and forty three. Every one now moved down to three hundred yards to fire a rapid, followed by three hundred yards to two hundred yards snap. In the rapid we made two hundred and twenty six. The highest was two hundred and sixty six and the lowest one hundred and twelve. The snap we made two hundred and eleven points. The highest was two hundred and forty two and the lowest score was one hundred. Our total score at the end of the day was nine hundred and Ihirteen which put us into thirteenth place. Both the score and the placing is most encouraging for our future as not only was it achieved by a team with a high ratio of youth and in- experience, it was also the first time for a good number of years the team has scored over nine hundred. Furthermore thirteenth place is five better than last year. If we are to continue on this upward trend it is most im- DIARY NOTES. Provisional dates only for 1981 are: — BICORPSAM—17th to 22nd May at Ash; RASAM—1st to 11th July at Bisley; National—13th to 16th July at Bisley. SMALL BORE WINTER LEAGUE RESULTS THE competition matches involving both small bore target rifle (SBTR) and service rifle (SR) were participated in by many RAOC Units and throughout the season competitors displayed a high degree of accuracy. The Baker Cup (Match 4 TR) was won by COD Donnington and VBRC Didcot were the winners of Match 5 (SR), the Home Cup. Match 1, the ' Individual Championship' RAOC SBTR, was won by Captain Alan Glasby. Staff Sergeant T. E. Watts RAMC. of COD Donnington was awarded a special prize on achieving the highest score of the competition. It is also worthy of note that the incoming Hon Secretary RAOC SBRA, UK, Major Sid Pincher won Match 3, the ' Officers Individual Championship ' and has found a new home for the ' Wills Cup ' at Westmoors. INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONSHIP (TR) MATCH 1 (Highest possible score 400) Overall winner— Staff Sergeant T. E. Watts RAMC, 397. RAOC SB INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONSHIP (TR) AND ' CHALLENGE TROPHY' (Highest possible score 400) Winner—Captain A. Glasby, 396. Runner-up—WOl M. Pugh, 395. Winner Class 'B'—WOl M. Pugh, 395. Winner Class 'C — Staff Sergeant K. Proctor, 394. Winner Class ' D '—W02 (CSM) M. Cullen, 340. THE OFFICERS INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONSHIP (TR) MATCH 3 (Highest possible score 400) Winner Match 3 and ' Wills Cup'—Major S. Pincher, 398. Runner-up Match 3—Captain A. Glasby, 395. SB TR MATCH 4 WINTER LEAGUE UK Winning Team—COD Donnington 'A,' thirty match points. Runners-up—CAD Kineton, twenty four match points. MATCH 4 SB TR 'BAKER C U P ' UK/BAOR FINAL (Highest possible score 1600) Winning Team—COD Donnington 'A,' 1569. Runners-up— CAD Kineton, 1559. SB MATCH 6 RAOC ASSOCIATION CHAMPIONSHIPS (Highest possible score 800) Winning Team Match and 'Association Cup '—COD Donning- ton 'A,' 779. VBRC Didcot, 751. COD Donnington ' B , ' 740. MATCH 2 SB SR SERVICE RIFLE YOUNG SOLDIERS INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONSHIP (Highest possible score 200) Private S. P. Grant, 158. Private S. Catterick, 149. Private J. Catterick, 140. MATCH 7 SB SR SERVICE RIFLE THE RAOC BOYS CHAMPIONSHIPS (Highest possible score 200) A/Private R. Scott, 138. A/Private J. R. Kirby, 135. MATCH 5 SB SR ' HORNE CUP * UK/BAOR FINALS (Highest possible score 1200) VBRC Didcot, 1074. CAD Kineton, 1020. 4 Petroleum Depot BAOR, 889. 7 Armoured Workshop REME, nil return. — 147 — |
| Book number | R0404 |