RAOC Gazette - page 115
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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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Corpsi <§u}tttt W)e journal oC fye &opal 8rmp ©tlmance Corpsf anb ®ttns> ©tonance g>erbitetf, atto tfjc Official ®v$an at tfje &&<£€ association Iprrt 1978 Yoluntt 59, Mo. U ebitortai 3H)c Cbitot'* Notices! Editor: COLONEL E. RiDGEtfAY, OEE (Retd.), Treasurer; LIEUTENANT COLONEL H. A. MILLER, (Retd.). SUBSCRIPTION RATES^HOME AND ABROAD 30p per copy, or €3.60 per annum, post free. Orders for monthly sales should reach this office by 9th day of the month, accompanied by remittance for previous month. Cheques and Postal Orders should be made payable to " Treasurer RAQC Gazette/* and should be crossed. CONTENTS. The contents of THE GAZETTE are strictly copyright and all rights expressly reserved. The views expressed herein do not necessarily eocpress the views of the Editor or the Corps, therefore no responsibility will be accepted. PHOTOGRAPHS. If it is desired to illustrate news with photographs, the photo- grapher's name and his written permission to reproduce must accompany the pictures* to avoid infringement of copyright. ENGAGEMENTS, MARRIAGES, BIRTHS AND DEATHS NOTICES. These will be inserted free to all past and present members of the Corps. FOR SALE AND MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES. These must be submitted in the form in which it is desired that they shall be published* Charges: £1 for the first five lines or under, and 15p per line subsequently. Charges must be pre-paid- Box numbers will be allotted if asked for. DEAD-LINE DATE FOR RECEIPT OF COPY. The "Gazette" is published monthly about the 29th of each month, and all articles, Station News Letters, etc., should reach the Editor by the 29th of the month for publication a month later. i( Letters to the Editor" and short news items will, however, be accepted up to the 7th of the month. Copy should be typed, if possible* and double spaced. EDITORIAL OFFICE: RAOC SECRETAHIAT, DEEFCUT, (Telephone: Brookwood 45X1, Ext. 516.) For the Record Notices Hogmanay in the Ski Hut Sports Report Hilsea Revisited Letters to the Editor A trip to Italy Penhale 77 Station News Home Station News Abroad Postings and Promotions Vacancies CAMBERLEY, SUHBEY, 334 to 336 337, 338 and 362 339 and 353 340 341 342 343 and 344 344 345 to 353 354to 362 363 and 364 364 WITH the Hill Cup final taking place at this time of year it again occurs to me that we tend to accept the names of our competitions into our Corps vocabulary and are apt to lose touch, as time goes by, with the personalities perpetuated by them. Our premier rugby competition is, of course, named after Major General Sir Basil Hill and no sporting trophy could be better dedicated. Nine times capped for England and cap- tain of the English side against France and against Wales. After the First World War when his playing days were over, he then became a member of the committee of the English Rugby Football Union and was elected a Vice-President in (925. The General was also a very fine golfer. Born in 1880, Basil Hill entered the Royal Marine Artil- lery in 1897 as a Second Lieutenant, and while still a subaltern was, in 1903, appointed an assistant professor at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. He transferred to the Army Ord- nance Department in 1908. When the First World War broke out in 1914 he was serving in China and was present at the Siege of Tsingtau. In 1915 he went to Gallipoli in charge of the Ordnance ship * Umsuiga * which served the Anzacs, and later to the Egyptian Expeditionary Force as ADOS, Alexandria. He remained there until 1913, being awarded the DSO in 1917 and mentioned three times in despatches. In between the wars he was Chief Ordnance Officer, RACS, 1919-21; Senior Instructor, RAOC School of In- struction, 1924-26; ADOS, War Office, 1926-30; ADOS, Aldershot Command, 1930-34; IAOS, 1934, until he was ap- pointed Director of Ordnance Services in 1936. He retained this last appointment until 1939 when he became the first incumbent of the newly-created post of Controller of Ordnance Services. Retiring from active service on the first of January, 1941, he continued to serve at the then Ministry of Supply as Director of Hand Tools from 1943 to 1945. He was Colonel Commandant, RAOC, from 1936 to 1947, and of REME, from 1942 to 1947. He died in 1960. I am quite sure that the General would have approved of our cover photograph—the coaching of the young men of our Corps in his favourite sport—rugby football. It is important that we keep these names alive; not just as inscriptions on our cups and shields. These were men of stature who contributed greatly to our considerable history. I would be grateful for any personal recollections of other Corps figures whose names are as familiar, almost as our own, but which are in danger of perhaps drifting into obscurity with each new generation. 333 — |
| Book number | R0246a |