RAOC Gazette - page 223
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| Corps | RAOC |
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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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The tray is inscribed: " Presented to WOl R. P. Huggins, Grenadier Guards, Academy Sergeant Major The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst 1970/80, by the Officers of the British Army." Mr Huggins is a legend in his lifetime. He was a figure of awe indeed. In sport, he represented the Grenadier Guards in athletics, sabre fencing, swimming and water polo. He played rugby for the Army.' He was light heavyweight boxing cham- pion of his Battalion. His Army career progressed no less spectacularly. Enlisting in 1945, he was a sergeant within five years. Prior to his appoint- ment at Sandhurst, he was Regimental Sergeant Major of the 2nd Battalion The Grenadier Guards. He served in Germany.Palestine, East and West Africa, and South America. His decorations include the Cross of Recognition by the French Army. FIT TO STUDY DETERMINED to maintain their physical standards even in the intellectual environment of Shrivenham, two Corps members of 15 Army Staff Course, Division II,—Major Clive Beaumont and Captain Chris Field—entered the 1980 London Polytechnic Marathon. Both finished, which seemed to them at the time, a major achievement. Major Beaumont completed the course in three hours twenty six minutes and Captain Field arrived some four minutes later. Commercial Motor Lorry Driver of the Year Competition. At Leicester in June, competing against professional drivers, he won Class ' B ' — ' The Tubes Ltd' trophy to qualify for the finals, and the ' K. C Ti Turner' cup for the highest placed com- petitor from HM Services. In the finals at Cranfield, Beds, on 7th September, he won the Institute of Advanced Motorists cup for the best Army driver, beating amongst others, members of the staff of ASMT Lecon- field. This was Staff Sergeant Crabtree's second year in the competition. In ' civvy street' he works in the Computing Division of British Rail at Crewe. He has been a reserve soldier since 1952, first with RAPC and since 1958 with RAOC. He holds both the AER and the TAVR Efficiency Medals. DARTS FOR THE DISABLED AS a result of an article in one of the National newspapers in which Jimmy Saville appealed for donations to help rebuild Stoke Mandeville Hospital, a fund raising committee was formed of 89 Supply Depot ' 89 Club ' with a target figure of DM3,000.00. The Committee decided to hold a function consisting of a sponsored twenty four hour marathon dart throwing event from 1400 hours Friday to 1400 hours Saturday. All members of the Unit participated in the marathon. The players were supported throughout the period, day and night by wives, children and friends. A non-stop Bar-B-Que and bar were provided during the total period and all profits went to swell the appeal fund. After the event. SUPER DRIVER CONGRATULATIONS to Staff Sergeant Alan Crabtree one of our TA NCOs who, after winning two cups in the Regional Com- petition in June, won a third award in the National Finals of the Some of the throwers (left to right): Sergeant Blair, Lance Corporal Moore, Sergeant O'Pray, Major McCuigan, Mrs Wellham, Sergeant Jones, Corporal Cairns, Sergeant Taylor and kneeling Staff Sergeant Kelly. The young member is Stephen, son of Corporal Cairns. Local firms and organisations were approached to make a donation in either cash or kind to the appeal. The response was gratifying, cash donations were paid directly into the fund and other donations were raffled off during the twenty four hour period, the proceeds being paid into the account The appeal was a resounding success, the total sum realized, now that all pledged sponsors and donations have been banked and checked, totalled DM5,384.24pfgs. A cheque for that amount has been forwarded to the Stoke Mandeville Appeal in London. The Officer Commanding Major Charles McGuigan threw the first dart and the final dart was thrown by CRAOC Lieutenant Colonel John Franklin. Mrs Wellham their civilian clerk did outstanding work by running the Bar-B-Que for twenty four hours non-stop. , For the statisticians the total scored during the twenty four hours was four hundred and eight thousand nine hundred and seventy nine. Bottles of whisky were presented to the highest scorers, one by the Officer Commanding to Lance Corporal Moore and one by the CRAOC to Corporal Longfield both of whom scored the impossible one-hundred and eighty with three darts! The booby, a bottle of Carlsberg was won by Sergeant Knowles who scored a duck ' ' missing the board with all three! More silver for CVHQ. — 1 |
| Book number | R0404 |