RAOC Gazette - page 118
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| Publication date | 1977 |
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| Early date | 1977 |
| Late date | 1977 |
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but also as a tribute to mark the Silver Jubilee in 1977 of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. The ceremony concluded when Lieutenant Colonel Clifton was invited to unveil the plaque and designate the carronades 'The Silver Jubilee Carronades/ This memorable day ended with an Association dance held in the evening. The annual outing to Burntisland for ihe children from the Brucefield Home has again taken place as has the outing for our senior citizen Association members to Ayr. Both events were immensely enjoyable and the hard work put in by the organisers has been amply rewarded with the obvious pleasure they have given. Petroleum Centre {Continued from page 15) CORPS CRICKET WE start on a somewhat sober yet comical note. Recently one of our young cooks, who will remain nameless (and almost fingerless), decided * to try his hand * in the dough making machine, only to find himself in the accident department of Poole General Hospital. Many hours later and after surgery he was collected by the Chief Clerk and the Cook Sergeant, one with his right thumb bandaged and the other his left leg in piaster; needless to say there were looks of amazement, puzzle- ment and even sympathy from the medical staff and other accident prone victims in the Casualty Department. Twice a week the Centre can be found ' hard at i t ' pre- paring for the PE tests. From the Commandant down all have sweated under the supervision of Staff Sergeant McWilliams, better known as the 'Legs of West Moors,' to keep up to standard and one member of the Centre completes the circuit the wrong way round in the hope he can break that eighteen minute mile and a half, On the cricket scene we are progressing to better things; one match was won with the aid of the Fire Alarm and the other quite fairly by getting the visiting team all out for twenty nine runs. The driver of the team was given a bat and told " we are short of players so go in and have a go/' result—out for a duck and he was heard to mutter as he walked back to the pavilion, " I only hope I never take this lot to a boxing match," On the Golf side (I have to write this into the notes as failure to do so would mean certain death), Conductor Heeps and Sergeant Reid have now reached the finals of the South West District Championship and the quarter finals of the Travers Clarke, We wish them every success. We recently had 883 Petrol Filling Platoon (V) at the Centre for their Annual Camp and an excellent time was had by one and a l l At the time of writing we are host to 59 Company (V) who are training hacd in the * oily * world. Congratulations are in order to Lieutenant Colonel Simpson and Conductor Heeps for their award of the Queen's Jubilee Medal, for SSM Tillotson and Staff Sergeant Cocks on their award of the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, and Private Fawcett on his promotion to Lance Corporal. We wel- come Staff Sergeant Kelly from Hong Kong, who is really only visiting us, prior to discharge under Phase II of redundancy terms. Corporal Willis returns to us again after a brief stay in Cyprus, where he found the climate did not suit him and Private Perry RPC from Bicester. We say farewell to Private Henderson on posting to Northern Ireland, THE season started with Indoor Net Practice at Aldershot and the Corps Trials at Blackdown. The indoor nets proved most valuable, giving the team an opportunity to get together and exercise tired, and in many cases, aged limbs. It was pleasing to see a number of new faces, especially as they were accom- panied by younger bodies! Major Robin Johnson, last years skipper, became the first casualty of the season when struck by a fast ball by Goldring (Junior) causing him to miss the first four matches of the season. To date the Corps has won two and drawn two of the four matches played. NOTICE T O CORRESPONDENTS I would be grateful if Unit correspondents would try to keep their newsletters down to no more than two double spaced foolscap pages and to one, for small Units such as Stores Sections. It is appreciated that there will be exceptional circumstances. However, if there are items of general interest I would be grateful if they could be submitted with the newsletter, but typed separately, for possible use in earlier pages of THE GAZETTE under such headings as People in the News, Sports Report etc. Photographs to accompany such items always make them more interesting. Editor. RAOC V. RAPC AT BRAMLEY RAOC WON BY 15 RUNS DEADLINE D A T E F O R RECEIPT O F C O P Y WILL ALL contributors kindly note that the deadline date for receipt of copy at THE GAZETTE Office really is the 29th of the month for publication a month later. R A O C V. R M C S A T S H R I V E N H A M M A T C H O R AWN* IN ideal conditions, both sides found runs hard to come by. The College, batting first struggled to 110, made in sixty five overs. The main wicket takers were, Major Richard Shore who took five far nineteen off sixteen overs and WOl John Weather- stone three for ten. The Corps batting proved as brittle as RMCS's and only Corporal Colin Wragg (twenty three not out) looked at all comfortable. Time ran out with the Corps at seventy five for eight wickets. R A O C V. R A M C A T B R AM LEY—MATCH DRAWN ANOTHER drawn match with the Corps once again struggling for runs. RAMC declared their innings closed at 180 for seven wickets made at three runs an over. The bowling honours went to Captain Steve Goldring three for fifty eight, Corporal Colin Wragg two for twenty two and Lance Corporal John Aldridge two for fifty, RAOCs 95 for eight wickets was dominated by WOl John Wood who made a classy fifty two and newcomer Private Paul Law (Bicester) twenty five. R A O C V. RAEC AT B R A M L E Y R A O C W O N B Y 76 R U N S AT last the Corps batsmen showed the form of which they are capable. Sound knocks of twenty three and twenty two by Sergeant Daniel and Staff Sergeant Weeks laid a foundation but it was a stylish fifty five by Major John Cook aided by a breezy twenty one by new skipper Lieutenant Colonel David Cornwell that speeded up the rate of progress allowing the innings to be declared at 191 for eight. Again the skipper showed his mettle with a spell of four wickets for eighteen in the RAEC innings. Sergeant Rocky Daniel completed the task with three for twenty three and RAMC were all out for 115 runs. THIS was something of a cliff hanger with RAPC requiring only 145 runs off fifty five overs to win, The Corps were all out for 144 in fifty one of the allotted fifty five overs, the runs coming mainly from Wragg (29). Wood (23) and Aldridge (21). Having so few runs to play with, it was essential that the Corps bowling remained tight. And so it proved. Long spells from Shore three for thirty one and Goldring two for thirty six assisted by an economical one for ten off nine overs from Weatherstone and two fortuitous run outs eventually brought the RAPC innings to a close at 129. OUTSTANDIN G SPORTSMEN WHY not write up any outstanding sportsmen in your Unit and send in to THE GAZETTE with one or two action photographs? |
| Book number | R0246 |