RAOC Gazette - page 26
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| Full title | RAOC Gazette |
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| Publication date | 1977 |
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| Early date | 1977 |
| Late date | 1977 |
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Che at Directorate tatton Jleto£ otnt of Supply Management HEADQUARTERS S MAN I. Last month S Man 2 listed in Episode 1, personalities who worked in S Man 2. This month It is the turn of S Man 1 to do likewise. Episode 2.—Storm. Currently S Man la is located in Old War Office and S Man lb in First Avenue House. S Man la will be moving shortly to First Avenue House thus gaining valuable movement experience before moving to And- over later in the year. Our Dominion (another goad word for Jubilee Year) con- sists of: Colonel S Man I—Colonel John Liveing; S Man la Lieutenant Colonel Geoff Shorrock, Lieutenant Colonel (Retd) Jack Hearn, Major John Eddison, Major Ben Cooper and Major Phillip Gratwicke (RCT) and Major Bill Collings <RA); Major John Baker (Retd) (ex R Sigs), Captain John Norris, Mrs Delia Harrison, Messrs Paul Henson and Ian Blakesley. S Man lb Lieutenant Colonel John Marsden, Major Mike Rose, Major Gill Jefferies (Retd) and Major Randy Jones, Captain Jim Sykes, Messrs Ken Addy, John Bentley and Ron Wood- roof. Last but not least our Chief Clerk is W02 Ralph McKee. Finally we wish the following all that they wish them- selves, now that they have left us; Major Don Baker on retire- ment, who will be taking up a research appointment; Bill Leckie on retirement to take up an appointment with EMI. Joe O'Hare on posting to HQ CVD Ashchurch and Maurice Young on promotion and posting to command VSD Moenchen- gladbach. S Man 2 Episode 3. How they brought the good news from Bicester to London (w*ith apologies to R. Browning). Well it's not so much good news as bad. How bad? Well judge for yourself—we missed out of last months notes some of our civilian colleagues at Bicester! So to put that right T we apologise to Mr Steve Tooke and Ms Francis Edmonds- Jones and the clerical staff of S Man 2a(3), Ms Sandra Kavanagh, Margaret McRobie and Mary Thompson. Having got that over and done with, there is little to report this month except for the hardy few who have braved the weather and taken holidays and those who now look relieved that the school Easter holidays have finished. But wait! Who is this bronzed figure who approacheth? Why 'tis Colonel John Skinner returned, limbs intact, from soaking up the sun on the ski slopes of Austria. TECHNICAL EQUIPMENTS DIVISION DONNINGTON NOW that the Auditors have left we can get on with more important matters such as THE GAZETTE Notes. The smell of sulphur and brimstone still remains but at least Mr Terry Foster has stopped humming * Silence is Golden/ Lieutenant Colonel Malcolm Nares has just been posted from our Weapons Branch to the COD. His departure, in a welter of wood worm dust and beeswax, was marked by a very pleasant party at the Red House. Late in the evening Mr Bill Jameson and Lieutenant Colonel Tony Camfield got around to lamenting the passing of the good old days of the late forties in Donnington when even the present DGOS was but the fifth subaltern on the left in Storehouse B2. In Colonel Malcolm's stead we give a hearty welcome to Lieutenant Colonel John Kostoff of the United States Army and his charming wife and three children. We trust that their stay with us will be both happy and memorable. However, it is not true that we also received a free consignment of peanuts at the same time. Major Douglas Stobie and Major Nick Wall, Captain Lennox Macewan, Corporal Steve Swailes and Lance Corporal John Babbage helped the COD Donnington Hockey team to nearly win the Plate competition of the Bari Cup. Need- less to say this fine performance has not merited a bye for them in the annual BE test. SQMS Phil Buxton is to be congratulated on his promotion to warrant rank. The flow of Battle Batteries will no doubt speed up in consequence. Major Sam Allen has been seen up and about. He is threatening to return to work. Mr Brian Smith has passed his EO selection board and now awaits an appointment. The only long serving civilian staff retirement this month is Mr Vick (or is it Cyril) Vickers from Weapons Branch. We wish him health and happiness. Finally gardening is tending to exercise our minds and bodies. Garrison Orders, as always keeping us abreast of im- portant matters, require only one third of each quarter's garden to be tilled—the remainder under grass. Therefore why has a four stroke rotavator just been delivered to Colonel Lloyd Davies' quarter, we ask ourselves? Directorate of Clothing and Textiles ASK YOURSELF dear reader, what other organisation in the British Army would have two Directors at 30,000 feet above the Sahara, beginning their lunches with caviar, washed down by vodka, and all in the line of duty. Let it not be said that Brigadier Malcolm Page's height above sea level was the result of a monumental flap. In fact the journey was to one of the larger African nations with some designs for a new ceremonial uniform. Other visits abroad by our staff have included Major Digby Smith's visit to the German Quality Assurance Directorate at Koblenz, followed by tours to clothing factories elsewhere in Germany. The aim of the visit was to test out how in practice NATO agreements for mutual quality assurance on clothing could be achieved by one member nation for another. This visit was Major Smith's swansong before leaving us to become OC MHTU at Bicester. He claims that the highlight to his tour with the Directorate was his achievement of the introduction of the ' Babygrow.* in various pastel shades, on a tri-Service basis, despite objections by the Navy and RAF to his choice of colours* His successor, Major Peter Field from First Avenue 6 House, is warmly welcomed and assured that the Babygrow * saga is definitely at an end. C and Tl, in the guise of Colonel Clive Brennan and Major William Reeve with Lieutenant Colonel David Hall and Mr Cyril Cooper from SCRDE, set off on an arduous fact finding tour to Norway to investigate the success or otherwise of our Arctic clothing. They visited 45 Commando north of the Arctic Circle and 1 Royal Anglian Group further south, Apart from user reactions collected (favourable) we have since been regaled with their war stories. It must be hell to spend a night in a tent at — 15°C We shall all treasure Major Reeve's exposition and demonstration of the use of the Arctic Sock. With much sorrow and liquid refreshment aboard the paddle steamer ' Old Caledonia * we said farewell to Mr Jack Jarvis, Principal C and T3, on his retirement after many years of service with the Directorate. His first brush with the Army was in 1946 when, after leaving the RAF, he was made to don Army uniform as a civilian in the Finance and Audit Department with British Troops Austria. We wish him every joy in his retirement. Training Centre HEADQUARTERS CAPTAIN MARGARET GIBSON has vacated her chair as S03 and been replaced by Lieutenant Colonel Elaine Anton. Margaret has been posted to Larkhill and will be missed by the whole Training Centre as well as the Headquarters Staff, We must congratulate Staff Sergeant Pete Simmons on his selection for promotion to W02 and WOl Larry Cunningham on his selection to Conductor (just in time for his release party). We are happy to see Mr Cunningham in the office, as with his continuation training at the Training Battalion, Adventurous Training in Norway and Management Training at the School of Ordnance, we were beginning to think that he was SOS! Sergeant Pete Smith has been capped for the Army at Rugby and is currently on tour; and the last but not the least of our |
| Book number | R0246 |