RAOC Gazette - page 132
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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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The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst THE RAOC Senior Ranks dined in the Sergeants Mess on Friday 24th February. Fn addition to saying farewell to Major Peter Walton several other guests were invited including the CRAOC, Colonel Cooke, and the new Second in Command Headquarters Wing, Major Jim Houseman. Everybody obviously enjoyed themselves although Staff Sergeant George Stephen, who organises duties, wishes he had organised them a little better as he realised he had to report in at 0700 hrs the follow- ing morning* WOl Ken Giddings was in the hot seat and all the guests joined together in thanking him and his Committee for an excellent evening. We wish good luck to Captain Bill Allan on posting to York and welcome Major Mike Groves as S02 Training. A quick nominal roll is produced below and starting next month Colleges will be producing newsletters in turn. Conductor R. E. W. Briggs, Staff Sergeants G. A. Stephen and J. A. Kay in the Academy Headquarters; Staff Sergeant P. W. Harrison, Corporals J. Lane and W. R. McLernon, Lance Corporals S. Briggs, J. Robertson, P. J. Taylor and L. A, Doel, and Private R. Day in New College; Sergeant R. L. Carr and Corporal C. E. Richmond in Victory College; Sergeant U, V. Curry and Lance Corporral K. Robson in Old College; and of course not forgetting our Technical Clerk Staff Sergeant B. H. Wicks in the Technical Stores. Training Centre HEADQUARTERS EVERYTHING is back to normal and the Headquarters star! can be seen three times a week pounding the sports field in preparation for the B FT to be held this month. Recently the Training Centre entered a team in the REME Veteran Cross Country Challenge Race held at Bordon and out of seven teams, we were placed second with Major Bryant finish- ing fifth out of sixty nine competitors. The Training Centre football team is still plugging away in Division One of the South East District League; the results are starting to improve and we are looking forward, to our Richards Cup Quarter final match against 10 Ordnance Sup- port Battalion- The winners will meet Kineton in the semi- final, our hopes are yery high. Mrs Dennison, the wife of our Commander, is holding auditions for the play * Conduct Unbecoming * which is our entry in the Army Drama Festival, no doubt that is why Sergeant Thomson is walking round the office quoting " to be or not to be—that is the question." We wish. Major L. R. Fleck (Retd) all the best on his recent retirement and welcome in his place Major D. H. Davey (Retd) from AG9. Private Simpson our WRAC girl has just started a PTIs course at the ASPT in Aldershot. We also wish her every success. CENTRAL VOLUNTEER HEADQUARTERS THE Commander CVHQ Study Period for 1978 is well and truly over; the Laundry Trailers have returned their rather in- elegant forms to their sheds, the 1 bath equipment (the new one!) has heard its last * oos and ahs, and the Petroleum Equipment, looking thoroughly uncomplicated on display, has returned to West Moors and the fog of " p i ' mystique! Your scribe has been reminded to let you know that it wasn't all fun and games, on the Study Period outside display stands. Mud was the order of the day and yes the ' Q ' Staff even managed to borrow ' Boots Wellington' for certain visiting officers, who obviously forgot to tap their barometers prior to departing for Blackdown. Staff Sergeant Foster with his Laundry equipment is believed to have made a fortune with his instant ' mud remover' machine and Staff Sergeant Kirkbride resisted all 'backhanders' from visitors anxious to top up their tanks prior to the civilian tanker drivers overtime ban. In the Study Period Tela Theatre production, the CVHQ C Players presented that smash hit TMC 5* a playlet depicting the mobilization of the typical volunteer. Mr (Private) Winter our 'Jekyl and Hyde' Clerical Officer had the star part, in a production masterminded by Major M. A. McLellan (Retd) and directed by WOl (C. B. de Mille) Clark. One member of the audience was heard to comment he had seen less ham in a pork pie. Headed by the Commander, Colonel R. K, Hind, everybody who is anybody in CVHQ rushed to donate blood to the Army Blood Supply Depot Aldershot recently, Remarks like " you can't get blood out of a stone " and "it's the only time I can get a rest M echoed along the corridors of CVHQ for quite some time, The RSM, WOl Hendry, looked rather pale after his ' blood letting'; however, we found out afterwards that it was not the blood giving that upset him, it was the fact that when he last gave blood in Singapore he apparently received a can of beer and was most upset at finding the Blood Supply Depot in Aldershot were not so generous! We welcome Sergeant Jim McGee from BAOR to the Train- ing Branch, he was received with such open arms by the two Training Captains, Captains Burrow and Rowlands, it was quite embarrassing. Rumours that Sergeant McGee is wearing one magnetic boot until he can run in circles himself are un- founded. SCHOOL OF ORDNANCE THE School running team dragged their tortured bodies to the start line once again this month. This time the competition was the South East District Minor Units Championship, and it was also the local qualifying round for the Army Champion- ships. If the team finished first or second, they would qualify to compete—a fact Captain Ted Walcroft had concealed from the other members of the team. Ten minutes before the start a member of another team approached the School team to say that the School stood a good chance of qualifying for the Army Championships—the cat was out of the bag. Needless to say, the team then ran a tactical race to finish third out of seven teams, and thereby not qualifying for the Army Cham- pionships. It seemed that only the team captain and Lance Corporal Pete Knox (who is a fitness maniac) were the only people who looked appropriately sad. This month we say a sad farewell and congratulations to Lieutenant Colonel Newnham on posting and promotion. We welcome Lieutenant Colonel Willis from DSM, Major Malcolm Bryant from Headquarters BAOR and Major Brian Allen from UKLF. United Kingdom Land Forces HEADQUARTERS j/^£!r^%>^ VARIOUS changes have taken place in the ^/FjJkk^>CV Public Relations world recently, spearheaded /yffjjMB sJvV by Sergeant Tony Hodgetts who is on a six montns I t *fl^W<w ) r emergency tour in Northern Ireland. A i Jr^wK IF l Sergeant Pete Maile has been posted to the st u# "R^rJI Division in BAOR while Staff Sergeant \ S L %M ^JSf ^* e x Turner has departed for a two year ^^2JK^^ tour of duty in Northern Ireland. Recent **" arrivals include Corporal Mike Abraham vice Alex Turner, and Sergeant Sid Barker is due in shortly vice Pete Maile. Sergeant George Moffett covered the well renowned Green Goddess campaign from Preston and Manchester and is now packing his kit ready for a nine weeks stint in Belize in the company of Lance Corporal Colin Farrington; they enjoyed it so much last year that they wanted to go again, honest! Our chief photographer, SSM Tony O'Shaughnessy, had a riotous time recently pictorially recording the goings on in Bermuda, (Why no pictures'}— Editor.) In the 'A' world, Staff Sergeant Pete Bird has arrived in Wilton to take over as Chief Clerk Army Legal Services from that Wilton Worthy Staff Sergeant Alan Stanistreet. In his turn, Alan has become Chief Clerk 'A* Branch in place of Staff Quartermaster Sergeant Brian Taylor who has exercised his option to become a civilian. Sergeant Mick Cartwright, also of 'A* Branch, has also moved on to pastures new and has been replaced by Sergeant Taff Dacey, late of the Parachute Regiment and now a fully fledged RAOC Staff Clerk. Ever eager to imbue the youth of this country with military tradition, RAOC history and clerical knowledge, Conductor Iain Leggatt has taken charge of yet another potential transferee in- to the RAOC, in the shape of Private D. E. McCutcheon RMP who views life from the lofty heights of the Superintending Clerk's office. We wish him well and hope to be able to wel- come him into the ranks of RAOC in the near future. Stop Press—We believe congratulations are in order for W02 John Grigsby to whom the Meritorious Service Medal has been awarded. ORDNANCE BRANCH THE Chief Ordnance Officer, Brigadier Charles Smith, continues to attempt to visit all parts of his extensive empire—a reward- ing if rather exhausting task. We hope during the summer months to obtain some rather more interesting news items following his visits to the * outposts' in Kenya, Belize and Canada. A 346 — |
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