RAOC Gazette - page 80
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| Publication date | 1977 |
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| Early date | 1977 |
| Late date | 1977 |
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Finally, the Supervising Office welcomes Private Jane Thomas WRAC from Deepcut and Private Lin Brereton WRAC who goes as Personal Assistant to DDEME, The Boss declines to comment but can be heard to mutter " I'll be glad when Ihe S Trial's over." The new typing pools include our text pro- cessing computers, complete with shiny operators, Sue Kelly and Jean Horton, ORDNANCE BRANCH WE have been somewhat subdued ihis month, but nevertheless, had our moments. Major Stuart Rowsell has been on l e a v e - By Order! and Captain John Cottington has been batting in all directions during his absence. His bowling has been pretty good as well, having recently taken four wickets in his opening over against 15 Field Workshop; fat chance of getting his car serviced on the quiet! and whilst we are on the subject of Captain ' C,' belated congratulations to wife Evelyn and said Captain on arrival of daughter Emily, and humble apologies from this quill wielder for failing to record that historic event in T H E GAZETTE Peerage Peerage List WOl Gordon Halton went a-fishing and mislaid his car keys. After the rest of us had spent twenty minutes in knee- high grass and pouring rain searching for them, they were found safe, warm and dry in his tackle box. He came very close to studying the fish in their natural habitat! Staff Sergeant Ches Hartley turned up, during a recent shower, in his army issue raincoat, and violently denied he got it from Marty Feldman, who did a flash programme in it! Congratulations to Private * KC * Smith on his promotion lo Lance Corporal. Lance Corporal Paddy Keating is now doing football, badminton and anything else to stay ahead. Congratulations must go to Paddy for his selection and ap- pearance twice in our Corps football side, still they lost? Sergeant Graham Orszewski has been promptly re-christened 4 Orinoko,' which is easier to remember, and Staff Sergeant James Gleeson, came in and said, " You can't catch me this month, I havent done anything!". So have to report, Jim hasn't done anything this month—again! Pride of place however, must go to Sergeant Alan (Dan Archer) Mellitt who has with great expense and foresight, purchased a metal detector. He had secretly written to a hair restoring firm a week or two previously, so he thought perhaps they'd told him he didn't have enough iron in his blood. But no, he has been seen lurking in odd spots with his hoover-like machine, making some very strange sounds indeed—the machine that is I So far he has discovered a box of drawing pins on our Chief Clerk's desk. Staff Sergeant Ken Hartley is in India at the moment; when someone mentioned Mecca before he went, Ken said he didn't dance' We hope the walk does him good. W 2 Joe Fletcher is in mourning following Everton's robbery. Our Branch is off to Bavaria in early June to Adventure Training, a full report and pictures to follow, however, some are rather dubious at the thought of ITV or BBC on either end of a rope up a mountain, with ITV in possession of a sharp knife! Sadly we have to report our DDOS has to go into hospital for an operation. Our good wishes for a full and speedy recovery go with him. Late News Flash—Sergeant Mellitt has had a win on the Pools—£7.20. He put a X for no publicity: must have been mistaken for a signature. 1 Division A ^™_ raSEsTT-rSuSSg? 1© ^^HVC^^\& HEADQUARTERS RAOC SIR,—Knowing how you like the Division to present the correct image, I organised a prize essay competition for the GAZETTE Notes (I thought your wife could present the prizes). Sad to say, Sir, that the only prize awarded was six extras for the following masterpiece, which I am sure you Will agree is nowhere as good as the notes J write With t h e a r r i v a l of t h e w a r m e r weather, THE GAZETTE Notes from Headquarters RAOC 1 Division are mostly sporting. Apart from being beasted into action on twice-weekly (weakly!?) runs by the Adjutant. Captain Collis, we also have various personnel disappearing on different sporting activities. For instance, Sergeant Paul Swain- son leapt off down to Rheindahlen to umpire an internationally organised Hockey and Competition France, Germany Holland), (teams from United Kingdom, WOl Brill, took away a prize at the Headquarters 1 Division and Signal Regiment Golf Tournament in Bremen recently. This was the b Flag Competition"; we are not sure whether he had to see how many flags he could steal without being noticed or whether it entailed getting that little white ball to balance on the top of all the flags. Sergeant Len Wrightson, meanwhile, is winding up his bowling arm in preparation for the Royal Signals BAOR ten- pin bowling championships. There is, however, no truth what- soever in the rumour that he is transferring to the Royal Signals just to bowl! From the military skills point of view, Sergeant Dave Coombs, Corporal Clive Craister, and Lance Corporal John Griffiths have been selected to shoot in the 1 Division Head- quarters and Signal Regiment Shooting Competition. Sergeant Coombs on SMG, and Corporal Craister and Lance Corporal Griffiths doing their bit on the LMG pairs. A report on how they get on will no doubt appear in next month's notes. Seasoned readers will be pleased to know that Lance Corporal Ian Grimes is still sick! With Private Alan Ritchie still getting his knees brown in BATUS, the never ending piles of filing are being sorted by Privates Dave Dewar and Alan Saxby. Q Henty has suggested that they be bound and shackled to the desks, but the modifica- tion has been turned down by MOD. 7 ORDNANCE FIELD PARK WE are now well into the exercise season and have just returned from a two week work out just north of the Harz Mountains. The weather was very kind which is always a bonus, however the lack of foliage on the trees did stretch our imagination when it came to concealment. A long weekend in a village location gave us a good opportunity to practice the local language and promote Anglo-German relations, it certainly made a change from talking to the trees! Apart from being attacked by some rather misguided volunteers from Brigade Headquarters of whom three were captured, activity was fairly quiet until the second week when we provided our own volunteers as enemy and simulated casualties. Everything went well except for Private Brechin who became the poverbial ' walking wounded' when on being separated from his enemy party he ended up walking some forty kilometres back to the Unit! The Bath Unit was much in demand at the weekend and Messrs Frost, Buckley and Perry provided an excellent service. The only other event of note was Corporal Walkers' exploration of a rather steep verge with his * Tenny ' which was quickly recovered by Sergeant Hobday RE ME who, after careful examination drove it out and still swears to this day that that was the first time he'd sat in the cab of such a vehicle! We also had time to practice our map reading skills on a patrol basis—not that easy in heavily wooded country without a compass! and the OC Major Smith was able to slip away to play in a representative football match as part of the Twentieth Anniversary Celebrations of 34 Panzer Battalion our * Freundschaft * neighbours here at Scheuen. On the sporting scene first place must go to the Basketball team (photograph enclosed), who with the help of Major Wes Thomas from Corps Troops East won the 1 Division Minor Units Championship and as reported last month were runners up to 1 Combat Supplies Battalion in the RAOC BAOR Cham- pionship. A fine effort considering we have not got a court of our own! Congratulations are also in order for Corporal Armstrong winner of the 1 Division Mens* Singles Tennis Championship and runner up in the Doubles, also to Captain Paddy O'Connell who led the RAOC team at the recent Army Parachute Cham- pionships in the UK. The team won the Team Speed Com- petition and came fifth overall. For the next few weeks we shall be turning our attention to Athletics, Volleyball and Tug-of-War, the latter activity being strenuously coached by Corporal Clack. We welcome Privates Vosper and Witheridge from the Depot and say farewell to Private Shipley. We end on a sad note and must record the death of Herr Cremers who had worked for the RAOC here at Scheuen for the past twenty six yean. Many past members of Provision Control and Accounts will remember him as the Central Records Clerk. II ORDNANCE FIELD PARK THE May day celebrations were delayed at Scheuen this year until the 10th of May to be precise. Delayed but not dampened comrades as elevens soccer team with supporters set off to Munster to do battle with 20 Ordnance Field Park in the DDOS l Soccer Cup Final. Gone fishin'' signs being duly posted prior to departure. |
| Book number | R0246 |