RAOC Gazette - page 99
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| Corps | RAOC |
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| Full title | RAOC Gazette |
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| Publication date | 1978 |
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| Colour | No |
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| Early date | 1978 |
| Late date | 1978 |
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m &broab BAOR Ammunition Inspectorate WOI ALEX MARSHALL has been detached to Ordnance Service Berlin for a month whilst the ATO is away in the UK. It being a long course that the ATO is attending WOI Alex Marshall will be followed by WOst Colin Pearce and Pete Dandy; each of whom will also spend a month in the bright lights. Ah well!! You have to take the rough with the smooth they have all told their wives. Despite all the training and practice which has been carried out during the regular Friday happy hour, our darts team has taken another hammering from the RMPs. If it hadn t been for the success of our ladies—Pauline Cockburn, Irene Thynne and Lindsey Ferguson—the defeat would have been even heavier. We are determined to beat the RMPs at something so the next social event will be ten pin bowling. Sergeant Curly Thynne is away at the moment on a weeks course learning the laws of football in the hope of qualifying as a Class HI referee. Looking back on old GAZETTE notes the name Thynne is very frequently mentioned. As names normally crop up in association with comings and goings (and one only Winner of the £ 1 , cheque. arrives once) it seems to indicate that Sergeant Curly Thynne is forever on some swan or other. Battery RA—Stop Press—we won twelve points to nil. Now We have welcomed Staff Sergeant Bob Cockburn and his the final! wife Pauline from the Emerald Isle, Our latest departure, We welcome Majors Hatton and Evans, Captain Bell Royal albeit only temporary, is Corporal Paul Myring who is currently Signals, Sergeant Wellham, Corporal Barnett, Lance Corporal on a four month tour in Northern Ireland. The detachment at Kanitz and we say farewell to Major Finch Royal Signals and Walstrode is once again under control of Captain Haydn Schofleld WOI Gower—to UK on commissioning, Sergeant Ford and who has returned from the 'Junior Generals' course. He Corporal Fletcher. Our congratulations to Corporal and Mrs hasn't wasted much time in reaching the top of the detachment Masterson-Andrews on the birth of a son. darts ladder but it is reported that he will not stay there very long as there is a queue of people waiting to knock him off. VEHICLE SUB-DEPOT MOENCHENGLADBACH There is never much to report in the way of sporting HEARTY congratulations this month to Corporal George achievement from a unit as small as this. Staff Sergeants George Appleby on the award of the British Empire Medal in the New Ferguson and Taffy Preece spend a lot of their spare time (and Years Honours list and to Mrs Appleby on the birth of a office time T must add) knocking about on the squash court. Their prowess was noted by GOC 4 Armoured Division so he x bonny baby girl—a grand 'double' for the Appleby family! Congratulations also to Corporal Rip Kirby on being threw out a challenge. The results of the matches haven't \ been published but our Staff Sergeants would have been very \ selected as one of the team representing the British Army ill advised had they won. Meanwhile, the rest of us still run on / Motoring Association (BAMA) BAOR in the Lombard RAC Welsh International Rally, which takes place in May. Friday afternoons or go on a route march in preparation for The best brains in the VSD have been assembled to the Armoured Division exercises later this year. represent the Unit in the BFBS Inter Unit Quiz. Led by Major Finally the Gronker of the Month (GOM) award. The Peter Gibson we expect to do quite well. Committee have sat and by a unanimous vote the award was The Unit hockey team has been boosted by the arrival made. Unfortunately the trophy had to be presented in camera of Major Alan Butterworth who now assumes command of and the recipient must remain incognito—as also the reason the Vehicle Park. for getting the award. Ah well, what it is to have the power of The soccer team got the New Year under way with renewed veto. rivalry against the Command Pay Office in the Wednesday League. The result was a seven to four defeat for us, but 15 Composite Ordnance Depot morale is still high and we hope to beat Ordnance Depot Antwerp in the first round of the Rhine Area Minor Units Cup STORES SUB-DEPOT VIERSEN Competition. FROM the Christmas festivities we move into the period of The British Forces Broadcasting Service have been visiting final preparation for our Annual Report on Unit and Technical the Unit recording interviews and musical requests for a pro- Inspections and the approaching Atlweiber Fastnacht or Karnival gramme based on ' Down Your Way/ The range of musical for our area namely North Rhine Westfahlia. Before we dis- choices certainly varied and ranged from Jack Armstrong miss the Christmas period mention should be made of Herr (believed to be of Geordie extraction) to the Bee Gees. In Heinz Helton of the Stores Sub-Depot Viersen Workshop addition, the producer, Mr Keith Rawlings, was treated to a REME, winning the £1,000 Star Prize in the Sergeants Mess run in Corporal Kirby's rally Land Rover. Annual Grand Draw. The above photograph shows WOI Tom A party of Officers and Warrant Officers recently visited Edwards Senior Member making the presentation; also pictured the battlefields and Museum at Waterloo. Although no problems are Mr Spencer, Officer Commanding of the Workshop and ensued, Major Gil Guthrie was at one time seen doing battle Lieutenant Colonel Connolly our Stores Sub-Depot Commanding with a chicken leg and a plastic knife and fork! Officer. It was nice to hear that our tame covey of partridges The Badgers (our rugger team) after their winter break, successfully evaded the recent organised shoot under the auspices started off the second half of the season by losing to 16 Signal of the local Forest Meister, and will live to tell the tale—for Regiment in a game that can only be described by our another year at least! standards, as appalling. Individually and as a team we showed Due to an illness, Ian Young, son of our Commanding no flair or drive and were deservingly beaten by a more dedicated Officer has had an enforced school holiday. Instead of return- team. We have since beaten 21 Army Support Squadron RE ing to boarding school, Tan has been hospitalised in RAF fairly comfortably and are now training religiously for our Wegberg and has been ' on traction.' We all wish him a BAOR Army Cup semi-final on the 25th January against J speedy recovery, as we do also to Staff Sergeant Eddie Wilson — 322 |
| Book number | R0246a |