RAOC Gazette - page 79
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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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We say farewell to WG2 Bob Kneen, Sergeant Taffy Hughes, Lance Corporal Stu Barton and welcome to WO I Noel Fletcher and W02 Ken Pratt. 3 Base Ammunition and Petroleum Depot Lieutenant Colonel Cooley leaves Vehicle Sub-Depot gladbach in style. Moenchen We welcome our new Commanding Officer Lieutenant Colonel W. M Young from Headquarters DSM and wish him and Mrs Young, a happy (our, Our Soccer team finished the season in good form. After winning Zone I of the Wednesday Section of the North Rhine Inter Service League they were narrowly beaten 2-3 by the winners of Zone 2. 40 Army Support Regiment, in the play off. Schiller and Barlow scored our goals in a fine team perform- ance. Injuries, leave and sickness all affected team selection for MS game and it is fair to assume that had we played our ,ill team, the result might have been different. Again though, the season has been rather disappointing. Indifferent perform- ances when they could be least afforded in cup matches means that for the second year running our team have won nothing, although proving on many occasions that they are more than a match for the best Our congratulations go to Lance Corporals Carey, Hadley and Kirby who formed part of the winning BAOR team of ten in a new annual target rifle competition against RAOC (UK.). We welcome and wish a successful tour t o : Staff Sergeants 'cCaffery and Wilson, Sergeants Cork and Williams, Privates Sjrgess, Bridgman and Duncan, Corporals Greenaway, Sorren- bon. Armstrong, Bolton and Hickin, Private Willcocks, Corporal Johnson and Lance Corporal Harrison. The following personnel have departed and we wish them well: W 2 Gunner to Antwerp, Staff Sergeant Scott, Corporal Fairweather, Lance Corporal Milburn and Privates Canale, Baron, Mclver and Lewandowski to Ashchurch, Sergeant David- son to Training Battalion, Sergeant Crosbie to the Ammunition Inspectorate, Corporals Baillie and Sutton to No. 1 Ammunition ! OU, and Corporal Smith (672) to Bicester. STORES SUB-DEPOT VIERSEN A HIGHLY successful Dinner Night was recently held by the Rugby Club. The Dinner was followed by a dance which was equally successful. The occasion marked the end of a good season for the Badgers; to have reached the final in the Rhine Area Minor Units competition in their first year of playing was no mean feat. RSM Bill Black's love and enthusiasm for the game has inspired all, and the results they have had has " oved it. A first class job, Bill, and we hope you make full v e of the Jubilee plastic NAAFI bag presented to you at the L inner Night to carry your boots in next season, • A thirty six hole competition, followed by a dinner at the RAF Golf Club Bruggen, was held to mark the departure of WOl V. Woodward, the outstanding Secretary of the 15 Com- posite Ordnance Depot Golfing Society. There was a good turnout by the members to show how much they appreciated all that had been done for them by their departing Secretary. The Commandant attended the Dinner and, after an amusing speech, accepted on behalf of the ^ v ciety a handsome trophy generously donated by WOl Wood- ed. This will be played for each year by the grateful numbers. Congratulations to WOl Brian Chambers, Corporals Norman Coom, Jim Lane and Alan Licence on their substantive promotion. THE quiet period continues, only interrupted on occasions by the scuffling of the wild boar. They have tripled in numbers since they first entered the Depot during the Great Fire of Bracht. There are now nine, and the Security Officer is seriously considering using them instead of dogs for patrolling the Depot! Alas, the rugby posts have now disappeared, and have been replaced by sight screens of the cricket season. The Rugby team enjoyed a very successful season, but unfortunately went down to 28 Signal Regiment in the final of the Rhine Area Sevens Competition held at Bracht. The team then travelled to UK. to play in the Army Courage Sevens. They had a walk- over in the first round, had two good wins against COD Chil- well (16-0) and 1 RHA (24-6) then lost to SEME Bordon twenty two points to six. They had done enough, however to reach the semi-final, but went down to the eventual champions, the Duke of Wellington's Regiment by sixteen points to nil. Two of our star soccer players, Corporal John McGonagle and Private Tan Crawford, were selected for the BAOR Corps side in their final matches of the season. In a surprise ceremony at the Petroleum Sub-Depot Arsbeck, the Commandant, Colonel W. Musson, unveiled a plaque moun- ted on a one and a half ton limestone boulder. The ceremony marked twenty eight years of service in which Herr Willy Harm, Depot Foreman, has served some fifteen Commanding Officers. During that time his devotion to duty has been legendary. Twice he has returned to the Depot after long illness. The unveiling marked the renaming of the Arsbeck Depot's main road. Willy is very much the father figure there and will be remembered for years to come by Depot users, as they drive along Willy Hahn Strasse. Congratulations to Sergeant and Mrs Pender, and to Private and Mrs Stringer on their new arrivals, also to Private and Mrs Whiting on their recent marriage. Postings in: Major Andrews and Major Price, Captains O'Brien and Atkey, Second Lieutenant Owen, Sergeants Green, King and Vans tone, Corporals Dimmock, Fox and I nee, Lance Corporals Anderson, Carter, Gelling, Sargeant and Turnbull, Privates Bradley, Hood and Thomsett Postings out: Major Water worth, Captain Hen wood and Captain Merritt, Lieutenant Boyd, Staff Sergeant Wickham, Sergeants Bobbett, Bradley, Creighton, Dick, Holmes, Silvester and Treveil, Corpora! Power, Lance Corporals Eden-Winn, Jones, Moore and Moulding, Privates McKeown, Paul and Pugh. 1st British Corps HEADQUARTERS £L THE RAOC 'gladiators' of Headquarters Regi- M^L ment, namely Corporals Alan Morris, Jason Davis, ^ t ^ ^ Mick McNicol and Private Bill Kennedy, have ^^k^^^ been seen during the past months in various sport- ^ H B ^ ^ V ing guises. All has now been revealed—they were ^ H ^m taking part in the Headquarters 1 (BR) Corps ^ ^ ^ Commanders Cup Winter Inter-Branch Com* ^m petition and are to be congratulated on finishing a creditable joint third. Corporal Morris, tired of waiting for a game with the Regi- ment's Football XI, formed his own team, while Corporal Davis is currently engaged in organising an Anglo-German Folk Festival to be staged at Oerlinghausen in September. Privates Peter Lewis and John McCarton continue to bear the whole clerical workload of Headquarters Company and still manage to smile. Meanwhile, in the corridors of power the G Operations operational machine of 1 (BR) Corps continues to function in its customary efficient manner though the pressure of work hasn't impeded romance within the Branch and our congratulations go to Sergeant John Davidson on his engagement to Sergeant Ruth Whitley WRAC. AQ Operations say farewell to Corporal Terence Cain on leaving the service and to Private Billy Evans after his short stay to ' gain experience.' What experience! ! ! Staff Sergeant Eric Robinson from AQ Co-ord left for Head- quarters BAOR with a five-week 'holiday' at Heidelberg in between and he is replaced by Sergeant Dave Stephens who we welcome from the School of Infantry. A |
| Book number | R0246 |