RAOC Gazette - page 62
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| Corps | RAOC |
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| Full title | RAOC Gazette |
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| Publication date | 1977 |
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| Colour | No |
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| Early date | 1977 |
| Late date | 1977 |
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.$" P E O P L E IN T H E MR DUSAN IS MADE AN NEWS POPOVIC HONOUAKY MItE DUSAN POPOVIC (Pop) was bom in Yugoslavia in 1905 and up to the outbreak of war in 1939, was a District Educational Adviser. From 1928 he served as a Reserve Officer in the Royal Yugoslav Air Force and was a Captain Pilot, flying, amongst other aircraft, Blenheim bombers. Tn 1943 he fell into the hands of the Gestapo and was interned in various concentration and punishment camps until liberated by British troops in April 1945. He served with the British Forces in Germany from 1946 to 1948 when he came to the UK to work for the Corps at COD Bicester. Lieutenant Colonel Deacon, Royal Army Medical Corps, the Pathologist at the hospital commented that to donate fifty pints was a remarkable achievement and said that his name would be added to the " roll of honour" at the Army Blood Supply Depot in Aldershot. George's wife Mary, who also hails from Greenock, is in quarters with him in Bergen, where he is attached to the Station Staff Office. They have two daughters—Moira (12) and Laura, who is married and now lives in York. He transferred to CAD Bramley in 1951 where he has remained ever since, becoming in the process, totally integrated with the local community—though as a point of honour and pride he has never surrendered his Yugoslav nationality. Throughout his time in England he has been a man of wide interests. He was commissioned into the Home Guard as a Second Lieutenant in 1953 and served through to disband- ment. He was very active in Civil Defence from 1959 onwards and qualified as an Instructor in Wardens Duties, Head- quarters Duties, Intelligence and Welfare. In 1967 he was appointed Senior Staff Officer Civil Defence Basingstoke. For the past five years, he has served as Camp Leader of the EVW Camp and has devotedly applied himself to the task of caring for his exiled countrymen and displaced persons of other nationalities. Our congratulations on this very well deserved honour. * • FIFTY * PINT * * * + A RARE DISTINCTION • DONOR FORTY SEVEN year old Warrant Officer 2 George Love from Greenock has just given his fiftieth pint of blood at the British Military Hospital Hannover. George, who joined the Army in 1954, gave his first pint of blood at BMH Hostert in September 1958 and has donated pints of blood to service hospitals in Singapore, Cyprus, Germany and the United Kingdom. Also whilst stationed in Northern Ireland he gave a pint of blood inside Long Kesh Prison. At the occasion of his half century of pints Brigadier John Stevenson, Garrison Commander Hildesheim and Commander 1st Artillery Brigade, presented him with his Donors Gold Badge and the master chef at BMH Hannover made a cake which was decorated with the twin hearts symbol of the Blood Transfusion Service and the figure fifty on top. Conductor Jack Roberts is congratulated by Brigadier John Stevenson, after he had received a bar to his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal. Jack joined the Army in July 1940 and has completed thirty seven years exemplary service to receive the rare distinction of being awarded a bar for his long service medal. He enlisted in the King's Own York- shire Light Infantry and transferred to RAOC in 1943. He has since served in North West Europe, Malaya and the Middle East and it was whilst serving with 17 Vehicle Battalion in Moenchcngladbach in September 1958. that he received his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal. |
| Book number | R0246 |