RAOC Gazette - page 138
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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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We now have Major Pat Patterson firmly in the driving seat, and hope that the drop in temperature that he found on leaving Hong Kong is not too much. Welcome, and we all hope that your stay here is a happy one, Brigadier Dalton paid us a visit during which he toured the Depot, and presented the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal to Sergeant W. J. Parke. In our arrivals lounge we have Captain John Sustins, Cap- tain Terry McDowell RAPC, Staff Sergeant Somerville, Sergeant Blackwood, Corporal Walters, Lance Corporals Bateman, Ellis, Peterson and Raw. Welcome one and all. Also we welcome back Corporal Johns from an exchange tour in sunny Australia, Our long list of departures include WOl Down, W02 Tarsnane, Staff Sergeant Beard, Corporals Ball, Dees, Park, Stone and Thome, Lance Corporals Cummings, Horner, Luke, Law, Milbura and Quinn, and Privates Adamson, Billings, Clarke, Jones 38 and Thornhill. Good luck wherever you all are, Heartiest congratulations go to Private Mick and Mrs Shirley Dickens on their marriage, Staff Sergeant Barry and Mrs Muriel Sutherland on the birth of a daughter Emma Louise Rose, Privates Baron, Footit, Hart, Hymns, King, Mcmurdo, Penny, Russel and Smith on promotion to Lance Corporal, and Lance Corporals Godwin, Giles, Johnson, Justin, Luke, Roberts, Sweeney, Twohig and Whittaker on reaching the dizzy heights of Corporal. Corporal Roberts is also to be congratulated on achieving top marks on his Bl Staff Clerks course. Greenwood attended the 1CL 4/72 Supply Managers Course. Sergeant Geoff Davis, Corporals Bob Craister, Des Bates, Bab Kendrick and the brain, Robin Stanhope, attended the ICL 4/72 Supply Controllers (advanced) course. Both courses being held at RAF Hereford. Corporal John Burley and Lance Corporal Terry Jeffery are the RAOC support in Norway, Corporal Ian Miller is in the Sudan. Corporal Pete Bradbury (Jolly Green Giant) is in Gambia and Corporal Dicky Legg is in Kenya. Skis and sun hats were taken. We also have a local exercise on the Army's answer to the Riviera, Salisbury Plain, including Corporal Mac McKimm, Privates Busby Anderson, Ian Vaissiere and Noggy Willis. The storemen, Corporals Bill Siddall, Jack Hudson, Dick Legg, Wynn Allen, Pete Bradbury and Lance Corporal Mick Ravenscroft, apart from their normal storehouse work, have given the main storehouse a face lift with the introduction of new racking and binning. The re-organising of Bulk stores to Hangar 1 under the excellent guidance of W02 Brian Maynard and Staff Sergeant Jim Penny is taking place, VEHICLE DEPOT LUDGERSHALL THIS months contribution comes by courtesy of Lance Corporal John Allinson; ODE FROM LUDGERSHALL Greetings to one and all, From us at Vehicle Depot Ludgershall, Here on snowy Salisbury Plain It's news time here once again The firefighters have all returned Happy to say no one got burned We've found a way, our weight to lose, By putting on our running shoes Who would have thought a weekly run Could be such gruesome fun Here there was one happy fellow It's ciwie life for Terry Weller We would just like to say to he All the best to you and family Lance Corporal Norm Hodgekinson is the next lucky fella He's got himself six weeks in sunny Kenya Corporal Wally Williamson's such a lucky gent It's nine months in Canada as a Sergeant Lance Corporal John Allinson will never be the same His part in the village panto? He's a Dame On Feb the eighteenth we all take a chance By going to the Saint Valentines dance This dance was arranged as we can all see By Staff Sergeant Hirst and his Entertainments Committee New arrivals to Major Humphrey's Marauders Captain Jones,Privates Cumberland,Bowen and Lance Corporal Saunders Promotions are always so long to come It's no longer Staff, but Sergeant Major Hutchinson Corporal Smith has been heaven sent He's just been made up to a Sergeant Then two Lance Corporals who did do so well Now they are Corporals Audrain and Hounsell Two private soldiers, when they fell in Now they're Lance Corporals Cronshaw and Pollin We gave the above all a cheer After all, they bought us each a beer Alas we can no longer on this letter bask The OC says we have a hard working task Hope you enjoyed our little rhyme That's all folks now until next time. Our ICL 4 / 7 2 Visual Display Units and Printers. The photograph shows the ICL 4/72 Visual Display Units and printers. In November the four operators processed 10,000 demands, the machine not only printing the issue vouchers-ad- justing the item record card but reprovisioning, all in the flasrr. of a nano-second! Arrivals: Sergeant Starkey and Lance Corporal Whitham, Departures: Staff Sergeant Bartram, Sergeant Ferris, Corporal Noonan, Lance Corporal Keast and Private Lister. Stores Section Hebrides FAILTE bho'n nan Eileanan (Greetings from the Islands), As your scribe puts pen to paper we hear reports from the mainland of large areas of the country being snowed in and of the temperature dropping to below freezing. It is perhaps a blessing that we are at Longitude 55—Latitude 78, otherwise known, for those not too familiar with Geography, as the Outer Hebrides where, apart from the occasional Force 9 Gale the weather at present is quite mild, although we have had reports of sheep being seen wearing skis I! (maybe it is some kind of warning). Well what happens on a small place like the Hebrides you may be tempted to ask? In which case your friendly scribe recently arrived from Germany will be pleased to put you in the picture. Contrary to popular belief, one does not have to continually walk around with a 60-lb weight tied to one's leg—only when the wind blows. One of the main priorities has been to provide personnel for Operation Burberry. We sent our men of action, namely Staff Sergeants Brian Bragger and Brian Reid, Corporals Steve Thomas, 'Andy' Anderson and Lance Corporal Tim Kelly, over to Edinburgh. By all accounts it would appear that all and sundry were kept very busy including Corporal Thomas who had quite a problem explaining to one irate Scots gentle- man how he (Corporal Thomas) reversed a Green Goddess into the aforementioned gentleman's car. We are assured by Corporal Thomas that it was not his fault and that the car was not there when he started to reverse. (We wait with baited breath for the call for tanker drivers). October saw Captain Martin Thwaite and Staff Sergeant Bragger exiled to that clump of rocks in the Atlantic Ocean Stores Section 70 Aircraft Workshop AS always Middle Wallop is a hive of activity, but more so in the last few months. We said goodbye to Captain Paul Carter and family and welcomed Captain Tom Greenwood and family, our new Officer Commanding. (He's the one still trying to feed bread to the helicopters.) Exercises and courses have taken much of our personnel away (no doubt the change is doing them good). Captain Tom — 352 — |
| Book number | R0246a |