RAOC Gazette - page 100
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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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| Early date | 1978 |
| Late date | 1978 |
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' ho has just been discharged from hospital after an operation the football team need his strategy! Being detached to Ordnance Depot Antwerp pending posi- n g orders at the end of this month are Lance Corporals Carey, Day, Trotter and Law, Privates Rose^ Garlinge, Duncan, Cooper, Chapman, Burgess, Green and Devlin. Congratulations to Corporal and Mrs Greenaway on the birth of a baby boy. Nice to see W02 Bill Cowell out and about again, and finally, a warm VSD welcome to Major Butterworth and Corporal Kreft. The winning team from Dulmen. STORES SUB-DEPOT DULMEN CONGRATULATIONS to the cross country team; the pulsating pumps of the Jelly Babies have swept the board yet again. This time they added the RAOC (UK.) championship scalp to an already hirsute trophy cabinet which includes Rhine Area, RAOC (BAOR) and BAOR, (all minor units) championships. Next they go for the L big apple * the Army Championships in Aldershot, and naturally they take not only the best wishes of Dulmen but, I am sure, of the whole RAOC for every success in the event. With such a successful team it is unwise to single out individuals but I am sure the ' Jelly Babies' would wish to give a special mention to the ' B o s s ' Captain Andy Jelly. In December he fell badly in a league race, (sustaining numerous deep cuts and grazes) but unlike the rest of us who would have been happy to grovel moaning in the mud, he got up and still finished the race well up the field for team points. Five weeks after the fall he took the veteran's prize at the RAOC championships. The question on everyones lips must be—Will he pass his Physical Efficiency Test in the ARU inspection? Drifting away from sport we were very pleased to have General Sir Frank King, C-in-C BAOR, for an informal visit, having been invited during Exercise Plain Sailing, by the previous Commanding Officer. He was suitably impressed by the Depot modernisation which is just entering the second phase of what seems like a hundred year plan. The next few months are packed with technical inspections. ARU's and visits. In times of stress like these it is always use- ful to think of the ancient Chinese proverb—"Any place with LOA can't be all bad!" With the ARU looming up, squads of men may be seen every morning running around the Depot getting Jitter. We are very proud to say that all the eligible geriatrics (over forties) have now passed their BFT and WO I Terry Tavener holds the fastest time for the three mile course of twenty minutes twelve seconds, and qualifies for the DGOS 1 certificate. Exercise Snow Queen is with us once again. W02 Andy Shearer had to be dragged away from his administration post at the RAOC Ski Hut after three weeks, and was replaced by W 2 Ted Hamon who will undoubtedly have to be dragged away too. To be fair, the administrative staff at the hut work extremely hard in a cramped environment. Corporal Alan Carruthers, instructor-cum-barman-cum-everything else has a permanent happy smile on his face and is a real asset to the hut. The latest contingent from Bracht for a Snow Queen course missed the coach at Dortmund, returned to the unit and were given rail warrants for their trip to Bavaria. They duly caught their train in Moenchengladbach, and headed east—towards the Harz mountains. Corporal Terry Clarke and company 'wanted to see what it was like there' before they eventually arrived in Sonthofen two ,/days late! They like it better in Bavaria! In the recent BAOR Squash Championships, Sergeant John Wallis reached the semi-final in both the Soldiers Open Com- petition and the BAOR Open Plate Competition. Lance Corporal Brian Luxton reached the semi-final of the BAOR Open Plate Competition and Lance Corporal Dennis Seton became runner-up in the Soldiers Plate Competition. Congratulations this month to Private and Mrs Burns and Private and Mrs Crouch on their recent marriages. Con- gratulations too, to Corporal and Mrs Barrett and Private and Mrs Lee on the birth of sons. We have had more arrivals than departures this month, these being: Captain Fletcher, Lieutenant Wright RA, W 2 Barber, Staff Sergeant Regan, Corporals Cross, Hesp, Newsome, Travers and Wildmore, Lance Corporals Bowman (REME) and Hildersley, Privates Crouch, Gargate, Gray, Heginbotham, Peppard, Ratcliffe, Riding, Stoker, Wills and WoodalL Departures: Major Boulton, Captain Dawes (RAPC) on promotion, Second Lieutenant Owen, WOl Walmsley, A / W 2 Barker, Staff Sergeant Gott, Corporal Bowes, Lance Corporals Bond (REME) and Bruce and Private Marriott, Photo Sergeant Alan King RAOC ' Camp Fuhrer * Ted Walker flanked by his son Terry (left) and Staff Sergeant Alan Parker (REME) (right), at the recent highly successful Colditx Night held in 3 BAPD Sergeants Mess. 3 Base Ammunition and Petroleum Depot WE are saying goodbye this month to Victoria Sunderland, hound-in-chief to Mrs Daphne Sunderland, Personal Assistant to the Commandant. We will certainly miss her (Victoria) scampering up and down the corridor in Depot Headquarters. Oh yes! Farewell to Daphne too. Ordnance Depot Antwerp NEWS from your correspondent in Antwerp this month is of necessity rather brief, for two reasons: firstly after hints from our 1 Editor a determined effort is being made to ' keep it brief, and secondly because your honorary scribe is off to Paris in five minutes time to watch the England Rugby team play France. (Lost again—never mind.) The mass move of Vehicles from Olen to Broechem is now almost complete and it appears that Group 4 has a new peri- meter fence—bumper to bumper. We await the next re- Many thanks are due for all your hard work during the past two and a half years. We all in 3 BAPD wish, you and your family well in their new career as civilians. There appears to be an unofficial * no smoking' campaign going on at the moment. Several prominent members of the unit have given up smoking just recently, but there is no truth in the rumour that CAPO means 'Cigars are Poisonous OK?'. 323 — |
| Book number | R0246a |