RAOC Gazette - page 94
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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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demobilisation of the BEF, France, had been advanced past its critical stages, he was appointed QMG to the Forces. He was gazetted KCMG in 1917 and KCB in 1920. In a personal sketch of him as QMG, France, the writer of ' C H Q ' says: " ' T C ' had the ideal personality for a military leader. You were always dreadfully afraid of him and sincerely fond of him. No general ever made sterner demands on his officers and men. If you could not stand up to a gruelling day's work, and come up smiling for the next day's, and the next day's, until the need had passed, you were no use and you moved on to some less exacting sphere. But you were working under a worker, and you found yourself part of a massive machine which was rolling flat all obstacles. That made it easy. Further, there was the most generous appreciation of good work and a keen personal sympathy, " Sir Travers Clarke has one rule to which he never per- mitted an exception: that it is the righting men who have to be considered first and last In France he was quite willing that the staff should work to the extreme point of endurance to take any of the load off the man in the trenches. He did not like about him men, however clever, who had not seen fighting. It was the first duty of the staff, he insisted, to enter with the completes! sympathy into the feelings and the difficulties of the fighting man T 'Bad staff work mostly arises from not knowing the difference between an office and a trench,* was one of his aphorisms." HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN BECOMES COLONEL-IN-CIIIEF RNZAOC THE following messages were passed between the Representa- tive Colonel Commandant and the Colonel Commandant RNZAOC on the occasion of Her Majesty The Queen becom- ing Colonel-in-Chief RNZAOC. From Major General A, R. Comock, Representative Colonel Commandant RAOC. Please convey to the Colonel Com- mandant RNZAOC and to the Director of Ordnance Services and All Ranks RNZAOC the congratulations of the Colonels Commandant and All Ranks RAOC upon Her Majesty The Queen accepting to become Colonel-in-Chief RNZAOC. Brigadier A. H. Andres, Colonel Commandant RNZAOC, Director Ordnance Services New Zealand, and All Rank's RNZAOC thank you for your kind felicitations on the occasion of Her Majesty becoming Colonel-in-Chief RNZAOC. The RNZAOC feels proud to be accorded this honour in Her Majesty's Silver Jubilee Year, and will endeavour to ensure the continued high standard of service which we are proud to share with our Sister Corps: RAOC and RAAOC. THE OPERATIONAL AWARDS FOR GALLANTRY AND DISTINGUISHED SERVICE IN NORTHERN IRELAND MBE CAPTAIN J. M, COLDRICK, GM THE QUEEN'S GALLANTRY SERGEANT SPECIAL D. J. MEDAL SILVESTER GRANT OF REGULAR COMMISSIONS THE following Warrant Officers have been provisionally selected by the RAOC Arms Board for the grant of Special Regular Commissions, in RAOC, during 1978: Ammunition Technicians: WOl D. C. Hewitt, Staff Clerks: WOsl J. C. Burden, BEM, and B. A. Haycock, W02 M. H. Jenkins, BEM, and WOl M. G. Noblett, BEM. Storeman: WOl A. J. Brown. Technical Clerks: WOsl A. J. Gower, G. W. Harcourt, R. W. McCusker and I, R. Manners. Regimenal Duty man: WOt J. A. E. Wheeler. BOMB DISPOSAL REUNION THE Ninth Bomb Disposal Reunion will be held on Friday, 30th September, 1977. Officers, Regular or Reserve, serving or retired, who are or who have been employed on Bomb Disposal are welcome to attend. The Defence EOD School and 33 Engineer Regiment (EOD) will be open from 3 pm on the Friday for those who wish to pay a visit to Lodge Hill Camp and see a display of equipment. Tea will be served in the School. Dinner will be served in the Officers Mess, Chattenden, Nr Rochester, and where possible accommodation will be in the mess. The cost of the dinner and drinks at table wi!l be ap- proximately £6.00. Anyone who wishes to attend or who would like further information please write to Captain D. A. Jackson, RE, 33 Engineer Regiment (EOD), Lodge Hill Camp, Chattenden, Rochester, Kent, ME3 8NZ. Telephone Medway 44555 Ext. 464, This function is now a tri-service event and is open to RN, RAOC and RAF EOD Officers in addition to RE BD Officers. The food and hospitality at Chattenden is superb and any RAOC Officer attending is assured of a very good evening, DGOS'S FITNESS CHALLENGE TO THE OVER FORTIES THE CHALLENGE DGOS challenges all over forties to equal, or better, a time for a three miles run to be decided by him annually. It is a time which he or his ' champion' (who shall be a brigadier not under the age of fifty) shall set, adjusted according to each com- petitor's age. Successful challengers will receive a certificate from DGOS. THE RULES Medical. All competitors must be medically cleared to train and subsequently take the challenge. Dress. Any form of dress may be worn. Venue, The three miles may be run over any terrain al- though a running track is preferable. If the run is to be on roads or cross country it should be as level as possible, and certainly not downhill all the way! Individual Challenge. Challengers should not be ' paced/ Arrangements. The challenge is to be taken and be super- vised under Unit arrangements. Challengers from small Units or from Headquarters should make arrangements to take it with the nearest major RAOC Unit. Timings. The target time for 1977 is to be twenty five minutes, plus or minus ten seconds for every year by which the challenger's age is less or greater than DGOS's ie fifty one now, (eg a forty three year old's target is twenty three minutes forty seconds or a fifty three year old's is twenty five minutes twenty seconds). THE CERTIFICATE A CERTIFICATE will be awarded to successful challengers and their names will be published in THE RAOC GAZETTE. In subsequent years if the challenge is sucessfully re-taken an annual 'sticker' will be issued to affix to the certificate, Claims, duly certified by Commanding Officers, are to be submitted to HQ DGOS, DGOS Sec 2, THE JUBILEE REVIEW OF THE RESERVE FORCES HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN reviewed her Reserve Forces at Wembley on 30th June, just prior to the Silver Jubilee Musical Pageant and RAOC TAVR was well represented. Lieutenant Colonel David Strong commanded the South East District contingent drawn from 2 Wessex (V) t 5 Queens (V) f 6/7 Queens (V) and our five TAVR Petrol Filling Platoons. Staff Sergeant Alex Thompson was chosen to be right marker of the East Anglian Detachment. Staff Sergeant Thompson, one time Scots Guards, is with 483 Petrol Filling Platoon at Col- chester. — 66 — |
| Book number | R0246 |