RAOC Gazette - page 267
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| Corps | RAOC |
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| Material type | Journals |
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| Full title | RAOC Gazette |
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| Publication date | 1980 |
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| Colour | Yes |
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| Early date | 1980 |
| Late date | 1980 |
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Photo Lance Bombardier Tilling. Photo Lance Corporal Bradley RPC. His Excellency the Governor of Gibraltar talks to Lieutenant Colonel Champion and Staff Sergeant MacLean in the grounds * of the Convent (Government House). Memorable events also included a day trip to the Kasbah in Tangiers by Major John Woodliffe and Major Lance Brett and a very comprehensive tour of the Rock's tunnel system and the fabulous caves for which they are indebted to the indefatigable Major Terry Holmes. ROUGH RIDERS Check with the October Gazette. There was a third member of the station who slimmed at the same time, one Mrs Steen wife of Sergeant Steen who served in the CAD until recently—no pictures I'm afraid! The three of them raised just over £160 for their efforts and all agree that the weight loss means they are the fitter for it. HIS SECOND RETIREMENT LIEUTENANT COLONEL BILL SAUNDERS retires as Assistant Corps Secretary and Curator of the Corps Museum this month. Bill Saunders was commissioned in 1941, saw service with the BEF in France before going to the Far East, where he was ' in the bag' for a long three and a half years as a prisoner of the Japanese in Java and Sarawak. After the war he served in Egypt, Singapore and Berlin and at home in such influential branches as AG9 and Ord 2—as well as at Aldershot and Chatham. . . . . or Apprentice Jockeys. APPRENTICE LANCE CORPORAL HEAPS and Apprentice Privates Bell and Simpson return to base after a mounted patrol along the North Devon coastline during B Company Apprentice College camp at Fremington near Barnstaple. Photographed by Major Glen. LOSING TO GAIN READERS who have been following the efforts of the Kineton sponsored slim will see by our ' after' photograph that a degree of success was attained. On the scales this time is W02 Dick Adams watched by our other slimmer Lance Corporal ' Posty' Ward and again their OC, Major Fox, watches the proceeding with, this time, an approving eye. W i t h the Corps from 1 9 3 3 to 1980. His last serving appointment was an interesting one; as Deputy Governor, Ordnance Officer and Receiver of Fees at the Tower of London. Indeed he was the first Ordnance Officer to be appointed Deputy Governor of the Tower. Having first en- 12 — ' |
| Book number | R0404 |