RAOC Gazette - page 35
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| Publication date | 1977 |
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| Early date | 1977 |
| Late date | 1977 |
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m &broatJ Planning and Workstudy Unit BAOR NEW BLOOD has been injected into our fast depleting ranks with the arrival this month of SQMS Rod Harban, fresh from t;:e Work Study Mint at Shrivenham. Already he has been intro- duced to a new dimension and such mouth watering phrases as Chairs Easy Low Back and Brushes Carpet Sweeping roll readily from him. We also welcome his wife Chris and family. Our new typist Mrs Eileen White is now settling in and is already adept at spotting the deliberate mistakes sent to test her! Work is increasing daily and we are grateful to IS COD for the loan of SQMSs Bill Cooke and Dave Thomas who yre already proving indispensable. SSM Dave Ashworth and SQMS Geoff Seaby arrived back safe and successful from a Clerical Work Data course at the aforementioned mint. Armed with the newly acquired know- ledge they hope to revolutionise cold store handling within BAOR and are shortly off to Antwerp to test their theory. (Note for Shrivenham—is grasping a carcass (170-lbs) an HG30?). The OC Major Ollive is also attending a course in UK at this time, but with Captain John Print in firm grasp of the reins the work goes on with a speed not familiar to some work study departments, Finally, the mention of the month goes to SSM Ron Ball who after abuse, ridicule and general scepticism has at last got an official golf handicap of twenty three. Well done Ron, next month you can come and play on the big course! (but whose name is decided that a safe identification; only had the correct key the same as a country in the Middle East) key should be coloured with red paint for trouble was, he didn't make sure that he in the first place! Ah well. 15 Composite Ordnance Depot STORES SUB-DEPOT VIERSEN THE winter sports programme has almost come to a close and re-adjusting to the warmer weather sports has started, The Sergeants Mess Football team has ended their season as League Runners-up and losing finalists in the Cup, while the Badgers won the Plate competition in the Moenchenglad- bach Sevens, The Junior Ranks Club sponsored a Charity seven day non-stop playing Disco, in the Pen and Stacker and as usual, our two very able Dee-Jays, Private Tich Edwards and Private Charlie Brown saw the session through to the bleary-eyed end, They are seen in the photograph at the start of the session! Corporal Mick Keates, Royal Signals, is feverishly collecting the sponsors pledges and we hope to inform you in next months jottings of disposal of the proceeds. Ammunition Inspectorate BAOR EXCEPT for the Annual Technical and Specialist Inspection it has been a somewhat quiet period since our last submission. The inspection was carried out by Lieutenant Colonel D. F. E. Boning (well known to a number of us) and it was pleasing to note that at the Unit party held in his honour, he proved by staying to the bitter end, that time has not affected his powers of endurance. It is rumoured that Yvonne, wife of Corporal Rupert Trude, went to a great deal of trouble to repaint the family car with army green paint especially for the occasion. Our CQMS Staff Sergeant Taffy Preece, is quite happy, however, that the paint didn't come from his stores. Spring is around the corner and the fact is made even more obvious by the short nails of Corporal John * Cameron * Frew whose wife will shortly be going into hospital to have another baby, and by the application for leave in July by one of our new arrivals, Sergeant Curly Thynne, whose wife will be having her first at that time. Corporal 'Buzzer' Boulton has returned from his EOD course and we must congratulate him on being successful. What a pity, though, that the first thing to greet him was a DM 500.00 bill to get his flashy Simca Matra back on the road. Our only promotion to report is Sergeant Dave Reece (to that rank) but to avoid buying drinks all around he has timed his promotion to coincide with his posting to 2 Divisional Ordnance Company, In his place we welcome Sergeant Bing Crosbie from VSD Moenchengladbach and hope that his family will soon be able to join him. Another loss is Corporal Alex Alexander from the Walsrode Detachment and gains are W02 Roger Crisp (ex Kuwait Liaison Team), Corporal Pat Powell (ex Kineton) and Corporal Ron Anderson (ex Ordnance Depot Northern Ireland), We have already despatched Corporal Ron Anderson on a drivers course because by general consent, we refuse to give him an excuse to escape from Duty Driver, and W02 Roger Crisp has already been heard to mumble that the allowances are not as good in BAOR as in Kuwait! Walsrode detachment known affectionately by residents as * Faulty Towers * continues its good work in support of 1 pivision whilst W02 'Rocket Man' Bowen takes care of the i^nge firings. WOl John Woodward, alias Basil Faulty, is the anchor man of the detachment in support of Captain Hayden Schofleld, On the lighter side, an Officer who shall remain nameless Privates Tich Edwards and Charlie Brown at the start of their marathon Disco for charity. Congratulations to WOl Maurice Cuthbert on his sub- stantive promotion and to Staff Sergeant Roy Haslett, Corporals John Bertram, Norman Coom, Mick Greenhalgh and Pete Bradshaw on their acting promotion. We say farewell to Major Sid Pincher, Captain Denis Kilbride, WOl Joe Hedley and Staff Sergeant John Malin. We welcome Captain Andrew Byles, Captain Ian Dexter, Captain Jim Merritt, Staff Sergeant Brian Mitchell, Corporal Rick Matthews. Lance Corporal Mick Mullen, Private Terry Crout and W/Corporal Edwards WRAC STORES SUB-DEPOT DULMEN WE open the notes this month with news of yet another fine performance by the Unit Cross Country team. In the gruelling thirty five kilometre Hermannslauf they came second to a Wuppertal Police side. Our time was faster than that of the winning teams of previous years by some fourteen minutes so we picked the wrong year to come second! Five runners completing the course in two hours fifteen minutes (equivalent to a two hour forty two minutes Marathon) puts the Donnington Hash in perspective (GAZETTE April 1977) —Incidentally the CO's wife and son also completed the course. The second major sporting success, which somehow escaped headlines in the national newspapers, was the first win of the |
| Book number | R0246 |