RAOC Gazette - page 44
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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 | 1978 |
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| Colour | No |
| Grey | No |
| Early date | 1978 |
| Late date | 1978 |
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THIS WAS OUR UNIT 7 ORDNANCE FIELD PARK By MAJOR A. C, F. SMITH, RAOC THE word restructuring by now has an all too familiar ring in everyone's ear, however, one of its last affects must be the amalgamation of 7 and 11 Ordnance Field Parks to form I Armoured Division Ordnance Company, By the end of February the disbandment of 7 Ordnance Field Park will be virtually complete hence we submit this article as a final reminder to all who once served with the Unit under the sign of the Desert Rat. The 7 / 1 1 Ordnance Field Park Basketball Team 1 9 7 6 / 7 7 , Winners: 1 Division Minor Units Championship; Runners-up: RAOC BAOR Championship. From left to right: Back row: Private Potter, Staff Sergeant Webster, Staff Sergeant Rule, Private Brechin, Sergeant Wadley; Front row: Private Perry, Major Thomas (Corps Troops East), Sergeant Hasketh (Captain), Lance Corporal Ettridge and Lance Corporal Outhwaite. 7 Ordnance Field Park on parade, It is difficult to trace the origin of 7 Ordnance Field Park, but it is assumed that there was a RAOC presence with the then 7th Armoured Division as long ago as 1941 and certainly Brigadier Bill Eccles commanded the 7th Armoured Division Ordnance Company in 1949, The present Unit moved into Ironside Barracks, Scheuen, the site of an old Luftwaffe ammunition depot, in 1952. Since then, U Ordnance Field Park has come to share the Barracks and, next door in the Friehier Von Fritsch Kaseme, the Bundeswehr has located Panzerbatailion 34 with whom we have had a most successful Patenschaft dating back to 1970, Coming back to the present day, the photograph left gives an impression of the size of the Unit with its establish- ment of forty two vehicles, four officers and seventy eight other ranks. Along with most units nowadays, military training and technical work keep us pretty busy, however, we still find time to record achievements in other fields as the paragraphs on page 277 indicate. Lightweight Tug-o-War Team. Winners: RAOC BAOR Athletics Meeting 1977—Front to rear: Corporal Clack, Private Tamplin, Corporal Hampton, Staff Sergeant Webster, Corporal Walker, Corporal Ettridge, Corporal Outhwaite, Corporal Ball, Coach: Lance Corporal McCunnell. — Major Smith receives his Jubilee Medal Lieutenant Colonel Owen. 270 — from the CRAOC |
| Book number | R0246a |