RAOC Gazette - page 257
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We also congratulate Lance Corporal Danny Plunkett and Private Neil Brown on their recent marriages and wish them well in the future. The Rent-a-Tent tent team Jed by Staff Sergeant Jim Mallon has folded its last canvas of the year after a hectic season on the road erecting marquees for ' Homecomings * and rodeos. Mallon and his team of Punkctt, Smith-Hollins and Paul Elliott have now attended more Alberta seventy fifth birthday celebrations than most native Albertans. * Elliott and Corporal Max Massiah recently joined a team that marched from Suffield to Medicine Hat, a distance of fifty kilometres, in support of a cystic fibrosis charity. They set off at 4 am and arrived on the steps of the City Hall about noon, where they presented Mayor Reinhart with a cheque for SI,000, with another S500 to follow from pledges. A team from Stores Platoon represented the Company in the annual BATUS Angling Tournament this month. The highly rated team of W02 Gene Giblett, Sergeants John Wells and Rodney Crov/shaw failed to land the big one, or very much at all come to that, so the trophy passed out of our hands for the first time in some years. W02 Giblett's vain attempts to convince the OC that angling is an Army Sport within the mean- ing of the Act (with all that implies, like Wednesday afternoons off) were not helped by this miserable performance. NOTICES (Continued from page 178) CORPS CHRISTMAS CARDS THE Christmas Card for 1980 portrays, at the front, the Adora- tion of the Shepherds by Reni, in colour and inside, the RAOC badge diestamped in blue above the greeting " With Best Wishes for Christmas and the New Year from " The price will be 12p per card, including the cost of pack- aging and postage to Units at home and overseas. Orders, to- gether with crossed cheques/postal orders made payable to the RAOC Aid Society, should be sent to the Corps Secretary, RAOC Secretariat, Deepcut, Camberley, Surrey GUI6 6RW. The profits made from the sale of these cards will go to the RAOC Aid Society. REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY letters to tfjc Cbttor FROM A TRANSFER IN CORPORAL JAMES NELSON writes:— As an Argyll and Sutherland Highlander I left behind one of our Army's biggest cap badges to wear one which can be seen in almost every corner of the world. It was 'during the first ten days of my transfer probationary period I was to find out how spread my new cap badge to be, was. Clad in ' tartan trews and Glengarry' I was summoned to an R03's office at Blackdown and asked if I would go to Belize (in de 'Carab' man). I was being asked by Records, as yet still a Jock, my wife and daughter in Scotland—we were separated until (as I thought) I had completed three months training. However, I was already a clerk. Well Belize it was, six months, hot sticky and long hours, it was to be the hardest and most satisfying six months yet of my Army career, it was also the quickest. My return to blighty saw in three weeks leave, the three weeks following was taken up on a Bl clerks course; now I was on the move again, this time to Antwerp, another busy Head- quarters. I was at this time unaware of Exercise Crusader, I am now well educated. Months of planning and long hours leading up to this very important task we have almost completed. I read THE GAZETTE each month, it keeps me well up to date and although my service with the Corps only dates back to June 79 I can keep track of many people I have met; W02 Graham Arscott in Hong Kong, congratulations on your MBE for Belize, and there's Ian and Angie 1 BR Corps Headquarters, best wishes to you both and your baby Clare (all of ten days old, the baby I mean), to Terry, G, S. & K I'll see you all soon, and so on. I have found life in the Corps warm, interesting and my new trade is very satisfying but without the monthly GAZETTE I would be lost. Although as yet the ODA Adjutant has still to mention in it my arriving here! From a very happy transferee. 1980 STOLEN PROPERTY CORPS REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY will be observed by a parade service on 9th November on the Blackdown Square, Deepcut, commencing at 10.50 am. Those attending are requested to be seated by 10.40 am. At the end of the service there will be a march past at the Corps Memorial. Military personnel should wear No. 2 dress, No. 1 dress hat with a poppy behind the left hand chin strap button, medals and gloves. Officers should wear Sam Browne belt without sword. Greatcoats or British Warm may be worn. Medals may be worn by those attending in plain clothes. Transport will be at Brookwood Station at 9.46 am to meet travellers on the 9.00 am train from Waterloo. Transport will leave for Brookwood Station at 2.30 pm for the return journey to Waterloo. Luncheon for Officers past and present and their families will be served in the Headquarters Officers Mess. The charge inclusive of a glass of wine will be £2.75 per head; children under twelve years of age £1.00. Owing to the numbers in- volved, luncheon will only be available to those who apply for it in advance. A cash-only bar will be operated in the Mess, and this may be used by all Officers and their families attending the parade. A buffet luncheon for Warrant Officers, Sergeants and Old Comrades of the Corps and their families will be served in the Headquarters Sergeants Mess. The charge will be £1.25 per head; children 75p. Again, advance booking is essential. Applications for luncheon should be sent to: The Corps Secretary'. RAOC Secretariat, Blackdown Barracks, Deepcut, Camberley, Surrey, by not later than 20th October. They should be accompanied by cheque or postal orders made payable to ' RAOC Association.' MAJOR B. E. H. SEWELL (Retd) writes:— I am writing to inform you that a robbery, recently, in my house has caused the loss of silver items (et alia) presented to me during my Army career from fellow officers of the Corps— Malta and BAOR especially. This grieves me enormously and should any Officer or Other Rank happen to come across these two items I should be delighted to know. The items concerned are a glass bottomed silver half pint tankard (Malta) and a silver tray (BAOR) well inscribed with my name and who the donors were. Any information will be reported to the in- vestigating authorities. VACANCY PHOTOGRAPHER — OXFORD A PHOTOGRAPHER about to leave the service and experienced in commercial, technical or general practice is required by Gill- man & Soame, Schools Photographers. The job embraces all aspects of School, Conference and University photography using thirty five milimetre to large format field cameras. Training in our specialist field will be given as required and applicants must also have the personality to represent Gillman & Soame. Terms are a good salary with prospects, in a secure pension- able position, working with our team of professionals. A Com- pany estate car is provided. If you are looking for a challenging career please write to The Manager, Mr F. M. Douglas, Gillman & Soame, The Studios, Mill Street, Osney, Oxford OX2 0DJ. — 206 — |
| Book number | R0404 |