RAOC Gazette - page 210
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| Publication date | 1980 |
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| Early date | 1980 |
| Late date | 1980 |
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quarters RAOC tennis team was not quite as good as the squash team, even though the team members were the same. However, in the All Island Tennis championships, the CRAOC partnered by Lieutenant Colonel Cardozo 4/7 Dragoon Guards,Officer Com- manding Episkopi Garrison, won the Veterans doubles final. Other sporting news, Army colours were awarded to Captain 'jValsh, Sergeants Goodwin and Franklin for athletics. W02 Jragger managed the Episkopi Garrison cricket team which was Saptained by Staff Sergeant Booth. Captain Walsh captained the Combined Services athletics team for the match against GSO Limassol. (Limassol Athletics Club). Major Whitehead, S02 Materiel, continues to put in many hours with the Water Ski Club, le is often seen towing an assortment of ski boats around the Samson (with the aid of a Land Rover, of course). Major fohn, Second-in-Command is progressing well with his sailing ind is now an intermediate helm. Congratulations to Major John on his promotion to Lieu- enant Colonel. He is promoted in early October when he moves to Bicester. The CRAOC, Major Dobie (S02 Supplies and Contracts), and Captain Walsh wearing his UNIFIL liaison hat, visited UNIFIL in early August. The trip was a great success and a lot of Ord problems were cleared up. This was the first trip by Headquarters RAOC in our capacity as the responsible agency, and it appears that the system is working well. We welcome Staff Sergeant Cooney from the Employment Training School. AKROTIRI STORES AND VEHICLE DEPOT. RAOC personnel in Cyprus and their families were recently invited to get together on the beach here in Akrotiri. Good weather for the day was virtually inevitable but the organisers went to great pains to ensure that all the other events and activities ran smoothly. During the afternoon, there was an ' It's a knockout' competition in which eight teams competed against each other in various races ranging from a complicated obstacle course carrying buckets of water to ' welly-throwing.' The beach part of the day finished at around five o'clock and there was a further get-together in the RAOC Club in the evening. There was an outdoor disco on the patio and a buffet. Captain Arthur Brown and his two children showed their potential as high-pressure sales persons with their almost-strongarm tactics in selling raffle tickets. The organising committee deserve many thanks for what was a very successful and enjoyable days entertainment. During recent months, the ' Brains of Akrotiri' contest has been going on. This is a Unit competition where departments enter a team of four and they compete against each other try- ing to answer questions on a variety of subjects put to them by' Staff Sergeant Jack ' Bamber' Leek. The winners in the Unit Ihis year were the Stores Sub-Depot team consisting of WOs2 pave Lewis and Kevin Whelan and Sergeants Tom Gill and Pete Holmes. They, therefore, went to the final against our leighbouring Unit, 48 Command Workshop. As this Unit has von the trophy for the last two years, a win this year would rave meant that we could keep it permanently. In view of this, he Stores Sub-Depot, being very economically-minded, decided o allow REME to win the final rather than have to buy a new tophy. It was a good close contest nevertheless. Another contest which we have won for the last two years s the RCT ' It's a knockout' competition. This consists of a :eries of typical ' knockout' games but all of them are carried iiut in the sea. Our team this year consisted of Captain Arthur Urown, WOl John Edwards, WOs2 Ken Avery and Dave Lewis, Corporal Mick Mitchell, Lance Corporal Ken Daniels and two young ladies, namely Sharon Avery and Karen Brown. Un- fortunately, we did not manage to win this year but we came a very creditable third. The^team manager, W02 Kevin Whelan, thinks that it may be a gooci idea not to have such good-look- ing female team members next year. He reckons they diverted too much of the mens' attention away from the competition! The profit made in the RAOC Club recently has probably come from celebratory drinks. There was Sergeant Ron Markley who was presented with his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal. Staff Sergeant Sandy Dickie, Sergeants Dowse, Gordon, Johnson and Perry also acted as hosts on their promotions to those ranks. Congratulations go to Sergeant and Mrs Dowse and to Corporal and Mrs Revill on the birth of a daughter in each family. On the sporting scene, we have had a fair amount of success. Sergeants Pat Gordon and Stu Johnson completed the Cyprus Services marathon, a distance of over twenty six miles all of which is run on roads. In the All-Island tug-of-war champion- , / T a r ™ fLy j _ ^ r :^ Throwing the W e l l y on the RAOC Families Day. Notice the ambulance in the background! Corporals Mitchell, Dunlop and Mayoh look suitably impressed. ships, the RAOC Cyprus heavyweight team got through to the final. The final was eventually won by Headquarters Company 3 Light Infantry but only after two very long hard pulls. At last, we have news of a win! The RAOC/REME combined team won the Minor Units athletics championships held at Happy Valley, Episkopi. Finally welcome to our new arrivals WOl Edwards, WOs2 Avery and Lewis, Staff Sergeants Copland and Dickie (on transfer from Ammunition Depot), Sergeant Porter, Corporals Moon and Thompson and Lance Corporals Dunlop, Kennion and Stott. We welcome them and, where applicable, their families as well as the family of Captain Brown who are also recent arrivals. ACCOMMODATION SERVICES UNIT. We thought that this month it would be a good idea to give old Cyprus hands an up to date sitrep on the Unit, it consists of three detachments, Episkopi, controlled by Captain McCusker, which carries out all primary provision functions plus the Returned Stores Section and Curtain Manufacture. Dhekelia with Captain Robertson, where carpet manufacture and furniture repair have been con- centrated and finally Nicosia with that Unit stalwart Takis Chrysanthou coping extremely well with the task of keeping the UN Force happy. The Headquarters is based alongside Headquarters RAOC within Episkopi Garrison with Major Brunt in the chair. We • are still in the throes of reorganizing much to the consternation of the civilian staff who have seen it all before, and have suggested that the entire ASU be placed on a giant carousel! UNFICYP IT has been a long time since UNFICYP appeared in THE GAZETTE Notes, an official policy of not advertising ourselves just in case those responsible for postings remember we still exist. For those who have never served in Cyprus, it may be of interest to note that UNFICYP consists of a Headquarters and five Contingents, from Austria, Canada, Den- mark, Sweden and the United Kingdom. There are civilian police detachments from Australia and Sweden and Finland and Ireland provide personnel for the Headquarters and Military Police Company. The Corps has thirty four personnel working in the Head- quarters. All are located in Nicosia, close to the International Airport, which has not been used since the 1974 war. The living conditions for the unaccompanied are best described by the official categorisation of ' Field Conditions.' Most of us can suffer the cheap lodgings though for sight of the sun. HEADQUARTERS UNFICYP. Major Douglas Stobie, DAQMG Logistics Co-ord, having recovered from the shock of being ex- tended, has been informed that in January he will be able to answer his 1 own letters from Andover. FOWO, WO 1 Ken Stuart 167 |
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