RAOC Gazette - page 106
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| Publication date | 1977 |
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| Early date | 1977 |
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Clje ®t tatton J?eto£ omt The Directorate of Supply We all enjoyed the Silver Jubilee, However, the only medal we got was ihe Long Service and Good Conduct presented to Lieutenant Roy Curtis by the Commandant COD Donnington. Never mind it is only twenty five years to the next one. Management HEADQUARTERS S MAN 1. Our congratulations this month go to our Chief Clerk W 2 Ralph McKee, He joined us from 3 Division in February and returned on 2nd June to be presen- ted with the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal by Major General Walsh, GOC 3 Division. The presentation took place in the Sergeants Mess Headquarters 3 Division and a large gathering of his friends and Mess Members helped him celebrate the occasion. We were somewhat puzzled the other day when Major Mike Rose was seen shaking hands with many of his brother officers in the corridors of First Avenue House. Had he just had a big win? No, we were later to learn that it was his twin brother, John Rose on an official visit from Cyprus, being greeted by many of his friends. At last the branch has been united with S Man la r who have been located in the Old War Office Building since our formation, having taken up residence alongside S Man lb in First Avenue House. We are due to move to Andover in November. S MAN 2. Episode 5. The month of June failed to burst out all over! Apart from an epidemic of ' British Warms * very little has happened apart from the usual * x * number of crises per hour. Our main item of news for this month is to offer our congratulations to Lieutenant Colonels Ted Andrews and Roy Feltham on their award of the Queen's Silver Jubilee Medal I hasten to add that contrary to rumour neither received the previous Jubilee Medal!. DSM(A) CONTROL DIVISION BICESTER IN our last contribution it was found necessary to record the many arrivals and departures occurring within the Division, only one occurrence of this nature must be included this month and that is farewell to Colonel L. V, Baguley and wel- come to our new Colonel Control Division Colonel E, G. Shephard. While I write I see a further occurrence which must be reported and that is a farewell presentation to Len Mason who retires today from Direct Procurement Section after some fourteen years in the Civil Service and prior to that twenty nine years in the RAF. We wish him all the best in his retirement VEHICLE DIVISION CHILWELL AN absentee that we welcome back to the fold is Sergeant Gerald Terriza (Taff for short) who, having spent the winter chasing a rugby ball with typical Welsh fervour, then promptly disappeared to chase his EPC (Advanced), The results are still awaited and we wish him every success. We had hoped to include a picture of Major David Williams leading his very senior tennis team to their victory over a somewhat more junior team from 224 Signal Unit in the Eastern District Cup, Unfortunately, Colonel Vehicle Division issued a D notice withdrawing the picture, stating that it rather resembled the line up for the Old Soldiers race on St Barbara's weekend and, in any case, other Base Organisation Tennis con- testants should not have the advantage of a preview of the Chilwell team. Having seen the photograph, we tend to agree with him, although Private O'Shea, our versatile Kiwi, has distinctive Wimbledon features—at least we can see his knees! For those members of his staff who are under the im- pression that Captain Andrew Dexter has one leg shorter than the other, we have irrefutable evidence from his, (and our) tailors that this is not so. The present malaise, a small limp, is due solely to his attendance on two ' Dog and Stick' walks, which almost entitles him to a 'Hill Walker of the Year* badge. Other members of the Division have also attended these walks and we now possess a wealth of expertise on the variety/quality of brews in the Derbyshire Dales. (Not all reports have been favourable, despite prior reconnaissance). Turning to cricket we are amazed at the wealth of talent that we possess in such a small military grouping. In addition to the solid spectacle presented to the bowler when Sergeant Brian Booth occupies the wicket, we also have the enthusiastic but currently less successful Lance Corporal Watson, Despite having received advice from none other than May himself (we mean, of course, Lieutenant Colonel Tony May), his walk to the wicket with customary panache has unfortunately been un- productive on the last two occasions. Nevertheless we have great hopes for him in the future, TECHNICAL EQUIPMENTS DIVISION DONNINGTON THOSE who are ecologists or Friends of the Earth will be pleased to note that bicycles are now the in thing here. This is in spite of the well known local geographic phenomena that irrespective of which point of the compass you set off towards at Donnington, the wind is always against you. It must be something to do with thermals! As with everything else in DSM these are early days yet and our cycling procedures and techniques have not yet become uniform. Our ' seats * vary from the Kostoff crouch to the Macewan meander or the Stobie stagger but time and twice weekly early morning PT are rapidly putting this right. We congratulate Staff Quartermaster Sergeant Phil Simmons, Staff Sergeant Mel Hamilton and Sergeant Steve Swales on their well deserved acting promotions to these ranks. In the case of Staff Quartermaster Sergeant Simmons this unfortunately means a move to Bicester. Surely this propect is not the reason for his recent departure to hospital for a short stay? We welcome Major Graham Browning and his family. His posting to Engineer Branch means a loss of BAOR LOA and command autonomy, but we are sure he will enjoy his stay in spite of this. It must be male chauvinism and not poverty that makes him ride a ladies bicycle of uncertain vintage. — 76 ARMY CATALOGUING AUTHORITY, WOOLWICH WHEN we were asked by DSM(A) for contributions to the Corps magazine, our Director, Colonel J. W. Hanlon, hit on the brilliant idea of making the already overworked Administa- tive Officer the official * correspondent.' There may well have been sadistic undertones in so doing because both of us are ex-Gunners! Briefly, for the unenlightened, we NATO codify and cata- logue anything from a pair of socks to a complete tank, and are responsible for compilation, editing, amending and printing of Catalogues of Ordnance Stores and Ammunition and various Illustrated Parts Catalogues. ACA has a host of other com- mitments and covers a lot of other technical ground, but to mention them all would fill this magazine, Headquarters is still going strong in the old Duke of Wellington's Headquarters in Building 37, Royal Arsenal, Wool- wich—in fact with our present accommodation problems there are times when We wish he'd kept it! Our authorised complement numbers some five military and four hundred and one civilians, the latter figure being fairly evenly split between technical staff on the one hand, and ad- ministrative, clerical and typing grades on the other, plus a small printing room staff. We are now part of the new DSM(A) set up and initially waited with baited breath for an avalanche of new instructions and other bric-a-bac which normally follow such a change. To be fair, however, they've been pretty reasonable in this respect and trust this situation will continue! The comings and goings of staff are too numerous to men- tion, but it would not come amiss to record that, with regret, we'll be saying ' Bon Voyage' to our present Director who retires in early November 77, Our new Director will be Colonel A, W. E, Pain. |
| Book number | R0246 |