RAOC Gazette - page 103
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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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A relatively quiet month for G Training/EPS- We have imilly seen the last of Private Pete Lewis and welcome in his ^lace Private Brian Marsden who is now firmly installed as -nurses king. Corporal Jed Stone has at last received his posting order to Headquarters BAOR—much relief in the Supervising Oliice whom he pestered for months. Lance Corporal John Lehmann appeared in the office the other day with his arm in a sling; he was apparently injured whilst playing in goal for Headquarters Regiment who conceded six goals. He is playing up front next week. We hope that he can keep injury-free be- cause we need his talents in the current Commander's Cup hockey and basketball competitions in which G Training are well represented and determined to do well against the forces of evil, namely AQ and Ordnance Branches. We welcome Corporal Allan Morris who has joined us from the murky depths of R and D and we trust he will enjoy his stay in more rarified air. We say a sad farewell to Mrs Kate MacLaren, who by the time the notes are published, will have moved to the Automatic Typewriter office. We are sorry to see her go and thank her warmly for all her hard work on the BATUS front. However, we will have a contact in this mysterious and much publicised department. We are not sure if we should be saying farewell to our Staff Assistant WOl Frank Linnane. He has been keeping a very low if energetic profile being involved both in the BAOR Squash Championships and Exercise Snow Queen. He's not daft is our Frank 1 In AQ Operations, work continues but we offer con- gratulations to Lance Corporal Alan Woods on passing his RPC2, and await with bated breath the results of his EPC course. In the dungeons the hard-working R and D Section have been re-decorating their offices under the professional eye of Sergeant Allah Mellitt and Post NCO Corporal Tom Baillie RPC. It has certainly brightened the place up lads. § ORDNANCE BRANCH A VERY subdued month indeed for the dreaded Branch. Our sincere good wishes go to Sergeant Allan Mellitt on his recent marriage. We wish Allan and Rosemary all good luck in the future. No hidden meanings for once—only this once, mind you! Sergeant Grszewski and Corporal Huge Ward lightened one week, by struggling over to the Incinerator with copious sacks of waste, setting themselves up for a warm and comfortable half hour, then discovering both are non-smokers. If an 8461 arrives at Bicester for a Boxes Tinder, you'll know where it came from. The Orange Commander returned from leave in a new command vehicle and can now be seen loitering around the MT trying to fit a Rolls Royce radiator into an ex-Army Air- portable Land Rover. Reckons the shock will get him past the first two check points. The Branch Dinner in December was most successful, al- though the after-dinner jokes might suggest a better brand of crackers be purchased next time. And to cap it all, the wife of the DDOS won the star raffle prize—how strange I Major Stewart Rowsell has pride of place in ' The Obscure Remark of the Month Award/ he was overheard to say " I believe civilian couplings are different" He could be right, there are more of them you know. For all you people who like to walk the sidewalks of the world—beware! W02 Joe (Brabham) Fletcher has passed his driving test. His ex-instructor is now a certified neurotic! And Joe has taken to collecting scrap metal, gates, dustbins, other's bumper bars etc, Two very enterprising and artistic members of the branch redecorated a bust on someone's desk, as Victoria before him— just—Womble Gleeson was NOT amused. D. H. R 1st- Division JANUARY was certainly SSM Del Henty's month. He was promoted, awarded the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, got a new set of teeth and was only a month to being posted What more could a man ask for? (A house in Hohne would be the reply I) Whilst saying farewell to Del, we welcome SQMS Pete Roberts as assistant DOWO, The DOWO (Senior?) is taking a hard earned rest by cutting down his overtime! Mind you, he and Major David Avery went to Paris to see the rugger international and they still haven't seen the Eifel Tower! Private Alan Ritchie has re-appeared from BATUS and leave and together with Corporal Alan Meigh is welcomed to the fold. Sergeant Len Wrightson is making his name in bowl- ing circles, proving one of the top bowlers in North Germany. Second Lieutenant Lloyd Roberts is asking about MFO so he must be going soon. Tve been asked to identify myself so perhaps next month I'll send a photograph. 11 ORDNANCE FIELD PARK THE Officers of 34 Panzer Battalion were entertained to a Curry Lunch at the Officers Mess. An enjoyable lunch and much to Herr Oberst Becker's relief, Captains Bentley and Ewart returned his Adjutant and Barracks intact! The strain of merry making was apparently all too much for some of our ' Men of Iron' who opted for the peaceful- ness of Site Guard for a week. Others chose the strenuous demands of Snow Queen but failed to surpass Second Lieu- tenant Lloyd's example of his leg breaking feat (or feet?) on the death defying nursery slopes of Grasghlen. Against this backdrop of professionalism the Stores have managed to increase their holdings by forty per cent and PC and A have had to meet a seventy five per cent increase in demands. Whereas Corporal Irvine on the CQ's side has ' no shortage of berets—just not enough to go round!' We welcome Sergeant Hayes, Corporals McKenna and Milburn, Lance Corporals Falconer and Harley; and Private Doyle. Sadly we bade farewell to Lance Corporals Thomas and Macdonald who left for civilian life—we wish them well. STORES PLATOON 7 ARMOURED WORKSHOP OUR first hurdle of the new year, PRE, begins on the first of February. Our drivers with some clerical and storeman assistance are beavering away towards this deadline. Congratulations are extended to Corporal Nobby and Catherine Baggaley on the birth of a baby boy, on New Year's Day. Paul was so eager to see the world he arrived eight weeks early weighing in at three pounds six ounces, We welcome to the fold Corporal Stu Thomson as our new E and MA clerk and Private Steve Hartley to the control office, via the MRS following a rugby injury, Best wishes on posting go to Sergeant Ray and Audrey Carse to 4 Armoured Division Ordnance Company, Private Yorky and Elaine Nisbett to 1 BR Corps Combat Supplies Battalion, Private Scouse and Maureen Kilfoyle to Bicester and Private Colin Walker to 10 Ordnance Support Battalion. Private Ken Buckley leaves us for a four month tour in Northern Ireland. Finally Lance Corporal Ralph Usher is to be congratulated on promotion, STORES SECTION 45 FIELD REGIMENT WORKSHOP WE are now safely settled in at Hohne, except for the boss who is a weekend commuter to Paderborn until his move to Verden in February, so we feel we should give a quick run down on ourselves. The clerks are SQMS Pete Roberts, Staff Sergeant Chris Kelly, Corporal Dixie Hale and Private Ray Morrall. The storemen marshalled by Sergeant Len Reynolds are Corporal Harry Jeanne, Lance Corporal Davie Jones and Private Oggie Roberts. Our two drivers are Privates Alan Innes and Pete Luckman, All our vehicles safely motored up here from Sunny Sennelager, including our faithful old Fordson, but much to the disappointment of Len Reynolds we have now lost it on backloading, so Len cannot leave a day early every time we move t Things are going along very quietly at the moment but no doubt that will all change when the Workshop eventually dis- cover in which box they packed the 890s. We know where they are but are adopting a low profile at the moment as one desk between four clerks on an open landing does not encourage one to be very productive! - 125 DEAD-LINE DATE FOR RECEIPT OF COPY WILL ALL contributors kindly note that the deadline date for receipt of copy at THE GAZETTE Office really is the 29th of the month for publication a month later. |
| Book number | R0246a |