RAOC Gazette - page 244
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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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FOR THE RECORD Management Services Unit THESE notes were started in Wales, picked up in Preston, com- pleted in Stirling and polished in Catterick. Such is the pace of life in MSU, especially when Headquarters UKLF (Ord) want the answer to the sixty four thousand dollar question as at yesterday. Not that we are complaining you understand, after all we do not have time for that, but suitcases are so expensive and briefcases full of bulging files so heavy! Captain John Humphreys is far too busy to listen to the OC's tale of woe. He is revolutionising Ordnance workshops, much to the delight of DC and T and DSM as well as our own COO.- (Thank goodness for abbreviations, if only you could all under- stand them!). In addition he is also seen scurrying around the OSU Weyhill DP, which just for convenience is located at Ludger- shall. Someday we might even see him at Thatcham. Pride of place his month must however go to SSM Dick Cheesman. His belated holiday took him not to Blackpool or Majorca but to Saint Tropez. Yes we did say Saint Tropez, the next villa to the glorious Brigitte Bardot Now those are holiday slides I really must see. Meanwhile W02 Jim Hargate has been hospitalised and receiving the very latest laser treatment for his throat ailment He looks fighting fit even if hospital visits are somewhat difficult —one way conversations get boring after a while. But we are all delighted to see him full of health and trust the follow-up operation will cure his pains once and for all. Two of our fine band of EOs, Roy Kibblewhite and Keith Amoss, are busy practicing their oral style prior to delivering important presentations to COO. The former is to reveal the future of UKLF Pools whilst the latter has been touring the half of UK missed by the OC before pronouncing on the future of the Accommodation Services world. Finally a word of comfort for two of our friends, Major Mike Blake in UKLF and Captain Jim Bridle at Hessay. We apologise for any inference that they chase the 1.62 inch ball daily. In truth they are only absent every other day! (Continued from page 177) TOP NATO APPOINTMENTS GENERAL SIR WILLIAM SCOTTER, KCB, OBE, MC. is to be appointed Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe with effect from April, 1981. He will succeed General Sir Jack Harman at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, in Belgium. General Scotter, 58, at present Commander Northern Army Group and Commander-in-Chief British Army of the Rhine, enlisted as a Guardsman in the Scots Guards in June 1941, and was commissioned into the Indian Army in 1942 after fifteen months in the ranks. He served as a Company Commander in India and Burma until April 1945, when he was evacuated to the United Kingdom after being wounded in action for the second time. After transferring to the Border Regiment as a regular officer, he spent the immediate post war years in the UK, India and in Malaya as a Company Commander during the emergency. From 1965 to 1967 he commanded the 1st Battalion. The King's Own Royal Border Regiment in British Guiana, Bahrein and Aden. Afterwards, he was appointed to the command of 19 Infantry Brigade. He was promoted to Major General in 1970, as Chief of Staff, Headquarters Southern Command. Between 1972 and 1978 he remained at the Ministry of Defence, successively as Director of Military Operations, in the rank of Major General, and Vice Chief of the General Staff in the rank of Lieutenant General. He assumed his present appointment in the rank of General in September 1978. General Scotter, who is married with a son and two daughters, also holds the appointments of Colonel, The King's Own Royal Border Regiment, and Colonel Commandant, The Army Physical Training Corps. He is a keen sportsman, and has been President of the Army Rugby Union since 1972. HJHJHJHJHJHJHJHJHJHJHJHJHJHJHJHJHJHJHJHJHJHJHJ IFROM THE SAME STABLE NEW Qur popular 'Burghley* felt hat illu- strated is just one of the well known range of H.J. headwear/rom the same stable as your service caps. Available from our Old Burlington Street shop, by post' or from one of our trade stands at Country and Equestrian shows now regularly visited throughout the country. Send for details of our full head- wear range in 'The Complete Guide to Headwear' and for details of shows visited. PLAN FIFTY THOUSAND regular Army reservists will be ' called up ' for one day this month in a new plan to speed up the time needed to mobilise Britain's immediate reserves in a defence emergency. The regular reservists—soldiers who have left the Army within the last nine years—will report to military centres near their homes where they will be issued with uniforms and respirators to keep at home in readiness for mobilisation. In future, the reservists will be expected to report for at least one day every year for their equipment to be checked and for any briefing or limited training necessary. They will also receive a taxable grant of £100 on reporting plus their travel expenses. The new plan will halve the time needed to mobilise the reserves because soldiers will report to centres near their homes instead of travelling to regimental depots all over the country and no time will have to be spent issuing uniforms and filling in documents. The 'BURGHLEY' In roueh finish felt. £26.50+£1.25 pp. <#n£%/ X X MOBILISATION 13 Old Burlington Street, London W1X 1LA 01-439 7397/9 —i X •-» X send me 'The Complete Guide to Headwear' I Please Please send me details of all shows visited •" • * 1 • Please send me a 'Burghley' hat brown/green size . . . * Name I Address i-l.- 1 QUEEN'S x a II x \x I S3 Complete or delete as required and enclose cheque with order. * £ MEDAL IN the September issue of THE GAZETTE, Volume 62 No. 4, under the heading 'Cover Photograph' on page 101, we stated that W 2 Jack Meynell has the unique distinction of being the only person to ever win the Medal with the old Mk IV (No. 4) and then with the SLR several years later. Mr A. Davies who was with RAOC TA 1935 to 1942, believes that this distinction went to an ex-RAOC Boy Soldier, then serving as a WOl Armourer Sergeant Major in the REME, namely E. E. (Aby) Mitchell, (since commissioned). Perhaps Mr Davies is right and W02 Meynell was the first Volunteer to achieve this double. No doubt someone will put our readers straight — 195 — rHfHfHfHfHrHrHrHfHrHfHfHfHfHrHrHfHrHfHfHrHfHrH |
| Book number | R0404 |