RAOC Gazette - page 284
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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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Adjutant, Captain Robin Sider, says he chose a quiet time to attend his course (Personnel Selection Officers). Hurry back, Sir, this ' quiet time' is going in your ' in ' tray. Arrivals: Sergeant Taylor, Corporals Boswell and Paddison (returned from tour in Belize), Privates Fudge, James, Peters, Russell, Tarbuck, Maxwell, McHugh, Morris, Salmon, Goodall, Wilkinson and Holder. Farewell to Lance Corporal Hendricks. Congratulations to Lance Corporal ' D i c k y ' Bird on his promotion to Corporal. 1 6 Battalion Bicester WE have welcomed back those members of the Company who went on Exercise Crusader. They obviously enjoyed their stay in BAOR. We are also happy to report that they were all a credit to the Company and the Battalion. It seems to be in vogue to have doubles in the Battalion. Private Paul Precious recently married W/Private Elane Wilcox of D Company, so now there are two Privates Precious and Lance Corporal Paul Bowden married W/Private Heather Wilson, to create another Bowden in the Battalion. On the sporting front, we reverted to our former position by coming last in the Inter Company volley ball. However, we are in training for the forthcoming seven-a-side rugby com- petition (watch this space for a report next month). We welcomed Corporal Carpenter and said farewell to Staff Sergeant Graves, Lance Corporal Hogg and Private Blakey. Congratulations to Private Yan Walker and Lance Corporal Mary Mullock on their recent weddings also to Lance Corporal Fritz Fehr on his addition to the family. A COMPANY. A Company heralds the return of the vital part of 49 RP Company (Bicester Element) along with their esteemed leader Major P. St C. Scriven. The real W02 Tommy Flowers has got off to an electrifying start! The Admin Officer, Captain Chris Hillier, has passed his BFT, (he had to after Lance Corporal Steve Lynch passed his). Congratulations to Lance Corporal Dave Ryan on his marriage to Miss Christine Dwyer, Private Rab Pollard to Miss Christine Stephenson and Private Pete Rich to W/Private Lesley Selwood. New arrivals are W02 Bulmer, Corporals Lowe and Christain. Suddenly everyone is playing rugby—the Inter Company Rugby Sevens Competition has been played and resulted in a victory for Headquarters Company whose B Team never con- ceded a point. The rumours now are that A Company are hoping to challenge D Company to a rounders match, (or any non contact sport). Stop Press. A short article on the COD will appear in Soldier Magazine in the December or January edition. Central Ordnance D e p o t Chilwell CHILWELL GARRISON has again been. plunged ino a state of sadness with the recent death of Major Phil Pash. He was given a funeral in Chilwell with full military honours followed by a service at Bramcote Crematorium. We offer his wife Anne, the children and all relatives our sincere and i i>» jy iM deepest sympathy at their loss. (An obituary V. \Jf JJ appears on page 218). ^^^=&4^Ky A party from Chilwell have just com- ^^^**^y^ pleted a walk along the Pennine Way on ^""•"'"'^ Exercise Bromham Way and we hope to have a full account of this for next month. The ' Chilwell Life,' the monthly produced magazine in the Garrison continues to thrive and has even had a recent upsurge in quantity and quality of content. Whether this is attributable to the acting editor, Major Davies or to ' Marilyn' (are they the same?) whose articles about various males in the Garrison provoke much laughter and a little embarrassment, is undecided. Too infrequently, John Dargavel (ex UCSM) produces one of his special ' Birds of Chilwell' and for those who have not had the pleasure of reading one of these we hope to be able to rectify this soon—so watch this space! The local branch of the RAOC Association held their annual ; dinner and dance in the Warrant Officers and Sergeants Mess and had a former Commandant, Brigadier Davies, with his wife, as their guests. The Garrison Golf Society held their Autumn Meeting at the second attempt after a waterlogged course last week and the extra practice possible since the delay obviously contributed to the close scoring. Major Newman from the Workshop won the morning medal competition by one stroke with the third placed player a further stroke behind and Major Thompson of the Regimental Wing won the morning rabbits competition also by one stroke. The afternoon stableford was won rather more convincingly by Captain Wood of Planning Branch but the other prizes throughout the day were evenly spread so that in the end, all bar one competitor won a prize. We welcome WOl Anderson and Lance Corporal Gray on transfer from the Royal Scots and Private Pilkington and say farewell to WOI Baldwin, Sergeant Pensom, Privates Crosswaite and Robinson. 10 Ordnance Support Battalion HEADQUARTERS AND HEADQUARTERS COMPANY. The Company has suffered a great embarrassment this month as a recent establishment change has thrown up ten surplus soldiers! It makes a great change to be 'over the t o p ' and as readers can imagine, calls to RAOC Records are now kept to the minimum. This month also sees the departure of Lieutenant Colonel Eddison to LE(A) and the arrival of our new Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Colonel Champion from Blackdown. 47 UKMF(L) COMPANY. The 1st of October saw the reforming of 47 Company as 47 UKMF(L) Company. It has taken two years to achieve this revival and many re-writes to get it correct Readers will also note that this change clearly splits the Battalion establishment from the Petroleum Centre, Westmoors. New sub-Units and new sub-Unit titles are as follows:—170 and 270 Local Resources Sections to 1 and 2 Section of 1 Local Resources Platoon. A Section 2 Sup- ply Platoon is new, 3 Detail Stores Platoon is new. 280 Petro- leum Filling Platoon and 180 Bulk Petroleum Operating Platoon to 1 and 2 Sections of 4 POL Platoon, Ammo Section to B Section 5 Ammunition Platoon, 1 Bulk Transit Platoon to 6 Forward Supply Platoon and 160 Equipment Section remains the same. All this is commanded by Captain Peter Ball but the Company's first OC will be Major Robin Smith, with effect from the first of this month. 48 AMF(L) COMPANY. September heralded the build up to the question " Will we go "? For a change we did and thus Exercise Anvil Express took place in troubled Turkey. The advance party discovered that the only purpose of a mosquito net was to trap mossies in, not keep them out! The chain of command took some temporary knocks and at one stage a ' mere' section commander had the privilege of holding the nightly O group. CSM Ray Scott made his appear- ance felt, although Turkey is a dusty place, even for a new broom. Private Blinko remained with the Company throughout the exercise and Sergeant Toni Biondic was flying out, with a ' bunch of grapes' even whilst others were flying in! Some new methods were discovered for laundering both the body and clothes, but the diesel shower is not recommended by its inventor Staff Sergeant Stan Jenkinson and neither is the dry powder both tried out by Captain Charles Emmett. Taff Rowlands your monopoly is safe from POL. Lessons were learned in tent erection, as Jock Cairney will bear witness from his 'throne.* The Pizza Parlour under WOl ' Uncle Bob' Ross, is considering developing a retail outlet, possibly to the main kitchens and ' the hills are alive with the sound of music'— despite Captain Andy Wallace! Finally, the Postings in and out: In W02 Brooks, Sergeants Heath and Nott, Privates King, Reed and Cook. Out: WOs2 Malin and Hulse, Staff Sergeant Lee, Sergeants Allen, Turnbull, Lawrence ACC and Biondic and Corporal Worthington RE. Petroleum Centre ALL the multitudinous parts of the Petroleum Centre have had a busy month—The School of Petroleum has just concluded the annual Officers Long Petroleum Course with an excellent technical presentation and we say farewell to our Australian guests, Captain Boyd and Flight Lieutenant Contessa. Cap- tain Osborne and Lieutenant Ward have also left us. At the final dinner night for the Course the Commandant presented Lieutenant Ward and his fiancee June Mason with a cut glass bowl for their forthcoming marriage. Flight Lieutenant —: 227 — |
| Book number | R0404 |