RAOC Gazette - page 194
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| Publication date | 1980 |
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| Early date | 1980 |
| Late date | 1980 |
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stranger to these parts) and WOl Greenhouse. In June Captain Trevor White our local ATO left on a four-month attachment to 321 EOD Unit and at the same time Captain John Crawford joined the ASU from Minden. WOl Keith Ford has vacated the Superintending Clerks' chair in this Headquarters and now occupies that of Chief Clerk to CRAOC London District. His place here has been taken by WOl Ian Williamson from Head- quarters Wales who is digging in for a long stay. OSU Thetford will be under new management as Mr Jim Harding, for long a tower of strength and guide to many an officer on passage, is to leave us under the Job Release Scheme. It is sometimes difficult for those of us who sit in Headquarters at different levels to appreciate the problems and vicissitudes which beset the civilian officer out on a limb some forty miles distant, but never while Jim Harding has been on the spot has the limb done more than creak a little, and then not very often. He retires with our very best wishes to his country retreat near Kings Lynn where the garden is more lush and lavish than the one which surrounds the bungalow at Thetford. He is to be succeeded in the OSU by Mr Jim Watt from Stanford Training Area, another who has the advantage of fully understanding the Norfolk dialect On the sporting scene the Garrison Squash League set up by Lieutenant Colonel Wallace is thriving, with some thirty five enthusiasts working up a variety of lathers. The Eastern District Tennis Championship was won by the Headquarters team which included three Ordnance players, Major Bennett and Major Jamieson and Staff Sergeant Bailey. j A yf JLTL //[ r^VK/ft V^lillrfo: T S p - l rrCf"v olfewQ^ipi South W e s t District WE were very sorry to leam of the tragic death of the late Brigadier Bob Bromham. Brigadier Bob was our CRAOC from Decem- b e r 1977 to M a y 1978 w m c n involved plan- ning our move f rom Taunton to Bulford. We offer our deepest sympathies to his wife and family. ^ u r i n t r e P'd explorer Mrs Rachel Charleson left us on Tuesday, armed with a couple of house-bricks in her handbag, to travel on her holidays to France. We have not heard of any injuries to the striking French fishermen we can only presume that either Rachel made it or is still sitting at Dover, venting her frustration on some harassed customs officer. A new word has crept into our dictionary recently—' mora- torium.' We had never heard of it before but it certainly has become the ' in-word ' and sounds terribly clever when used to restrict Supplies, POL, and other items issued by ' The Providers.' A welcome to Captain (OEO) Tony Brown who has joined the ASU from Northern Ireland and also W02 Jim Bond who has just completed a most arduous tour as Clerk to the . Defence Attache Islamabad. He is now Chief Clerk Ord Branch. We extend a hand of friendship to both of them and hope they have a happy stint in South West District. ^"vf^fosrjsV __//""l"cyJ (^y ^— # Army Air Corps HEADQUARTERS DAAC ORD (AIR) WE have just said farewell to one of our longest serving members of the Ord (Air) Staff, Mary Holland who joined the Ord (Air) staff sixteen years ago. The photo- graph shows Mary being presented with a set of gardening tools by the SOI Lieu- tenant Colonel Marsden we at Ord (Air) wish Mary a happy retirement and pleasant gardening in her retirement as I am sure will all those Corps Members who have served at Ord (Air). Congratulations are due to our Chief Clerk Corporal Cann WRAC, who was married to Private Lockhart AAC recently. We look forward to her return as Corporal Lockhart after her honeymoon in Cornwall. 1 AIRCRAFT SUPPORT UNIT. We are pleased to meet Colonel Rogers the Inspector RAOC, who visited us for our Annual computer Everything was Major well Hannington Technical and performed from truly the Inspection. from G1098/1198 inspected. its Headquarters usual All tricks to The the seemed DAAC underside to two show to assistant and go of its well Major our versatility. inspectors and vehicles Brad- — the 1 Mary Holland retires after sixteen years with Ord Staff of the .. Army Air Corps. shaw the S02 Ord (Air) UKLF had to be retrieved at lunch- time from the depths of the storehouse. Fortunately we rescued them before they were brought to account by the computer. W02 Derek Green and Corporal Mac McKimm are to be congratulated on their awards in the Wallop Cross Country League. The Unit entered three teams in each of the races. Although no team prizes were won, each team did well and finished several places higher than the year before. Evening cricket matches have been the feature of the past few weeks. Local firms have been taken on and soundly beaten. Our footballing achievements are not so hot. Despite their OC's services as referee, the Unit team have yet to win. There have been outstanding performances by Staff Sergeant Duncan Learmouth (goalkeeper), Corporal Scouse Ditchfield (forward), Private Plug Elstob (injuries and histrionics) and Lance Corporal John Woodward (Unit hitman). ' The living in members of the Unit, impressed by the high standard of maintenance of their accommodation, are off to Paris to compare notes with the locals. The story of the Wallop soldier injured by a falling tile while taking a shower should be in any decent French phrase book. Congratulations on his promotion to Lance Corporal John Woodward. Welcome to Private Taff Cradock who reads his arms instead of a newspaper. We all know from his tattoos that he belongs to Wales and the O positive blood group. It's going to be interesting when he gets a girlfriend. However, he's doing very well and is driving our computer with more skill each day. Welcome to Sergeant Henry Stewart and Corporal Bourne. Our best wishes to those who have been flung furthest in our empire, Sergeant Steve Coelho in Belize and Staff Sergeant Neil Starkey and his gang-at Aldergrove. 2 AIRCRAFT SUPPORT UNIT. Greetings from Wetmold. Will someone with a bit more pull than us please ask someone to direct some sunshine our way? We're sick fed up of windy, rainy days. Corporals Bob Parish and Ian Cass are swanning on an EPC course. We're not sure if they're achieving anything but at least we now get properly written memos and letters. Sergeant Bob Ward is also away—at Bisley and we hope he's going to shoot well enough to bring back a memento—'cause he's not going next year. Lance Corporal Norris seems to be permanently taking part in athletics. The rest of the Unit seems to be on leave. WOl Beaton has spent two weeks in Canada. He pro- fesses to have gone there to inspect the FAACO account but, (as his wife says) judging by his bank balance, he did a lot more. Anyway as all ' inspectors' know, it's difficult to spin an in- spection out for ten days. Perhaps he was looking for JR's killer. BFTs have been the order of the month and we've managed to get almost everyone through. The only thing is that Staff |
| Book number | R0404 |