RAOC Gazette - page 125
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| Publication date | 1977 |
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| Early date | 1977 |
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t vrporal t{ , j to M Dave Gelling, who has been selected for the BAOR go lo Berlin. \\"0l Ron Foster and Private Paul Dixon have kept the WOl Foster vt < -; turning and are both steadily improving. ' t y V . ndden for the Army in UK and finished third in the recent \Viuy Road Race Championships. Time trials fc are being held occasionally on the Depot roads, with a local needle * match against RAF Bruggen. At the time of writing the Unit marching team are off to take part in the Ardennes Marches. Chief whip appears to be Corporal Dennis Ashworth, With the departure to Deepcut of W02 Gary Davies, and the return to Bracht of their prodigal son* W02 * Digger' Den- holm, the future of the Barbarians' Rugby teams seems assured. We look forward with interest to the coming season. The shooting team, ably headed by Sergeant * Dusty' Miller came second in the recent Rhine Area Shoot, They are now off to UK for the annual Skill-at-Arms Meeting at Bisley. Congratulations go to Corporal Brian Coull, in gaining a tKW Rhine Area record in the Rhine Area team Swimming Competition. He swam the 50 metre Freestyle in 28.7 seconds. Congratulations to Lance Corporal and Mrs Turnbull, Private and Mrs Dawes, Private and Mrs Grice, and Private and Mrs Whiting on their recent marriages, and to the follow- ing on their new arrivals: Sergeant and Mrs Pender, Corporal ami Mrs Dovell, Private and Mrs Purkins, Private and Mrs St.'nger, and Private and Mrs Waddington, The following promotions have also been notified: W02 Randall, W02 Noel Barker, Staff Sergeants Scanlon and Robin- son. Sergeants Avery, Hulme, Knight and Treveil, Corporals Busuttil, Eden-Winn, Keogh, Lawton, Longland, Murphy and Parker, Lance Corporals Atkins, Cheeseman, Christopher, Fox, Lipscombe, Low, Moorhouse, Turnbull, Vale and Willis. Postings in: Major Andrews and Major Price, Captain O'Brien and Captain Atkey, Second Lieutenant Owen, WOl Taverner, WOs2 Denholm and Graham (RE), Sergeants Green, Hunter, King, Vanstone, Roper and Sutton, Corporals Bousfield, B Limby, Dimmock, Bishop, Fox, Tnce and Wood, Lance Corporals Anderson, Carter, Gelling, Latta, Piggott, Sargeant and Turnbull, Privates Bradley, Hood, Little, Millar (ACC), McGitl and Thomsett, Postings out: Major Waterworth, Captain Henwood and Captain Merritt, WOsl Doyle and Hawley, WOs2 Brown and Davies, Staff Sergeants Forde and Wickham, Sergeants Bobbett, Bradley, Capnerhurst, Creighton, Dick, Higgins, Holmes, Silvester, Stuckes and Treveil, Corporals Andrews (ACC), Bone, Burchell, Fletcher, Hancock, Nisbet, Power and Sheen, Lance Corporals E ien-Winn, Jones, Lukehurst, Mains, Moore, Moulding, Moyce and White 327, Privates Grice, Hatfield, Hulston, McKeown, Paul, Pugh, Somerset (ACC) and Tocher. successful operation, and is at present recuperating at Osbourne House in UK. We wish him a speedy recovery. However, the DDOS is writing a new book at present, and how he managed lo get his PA, Mrs Maggie Gale, to follow him into hospital a couple of days after his own admission, is beyond us all. Maggie is also now recovering from her operation, and we wish her too, a full and speedy recovery. With a background of operations like this, the book must be about the SOE? Photo Lance Corporal Gallagher General Chopra receives the 1 (BR) Corps plaque. Our accompanying photograph this month shows ADOS handing over a 1 (BR) Corps shield to DOS India, Lieutenant General G. L. Chopra, on his recent visit to BAOR, all in all a very busy period. Lance Corporal Paddy Keating was awarded the Jubilee Medal, our congratulations, he was especially pleased as no parade was involved! Sergeant Orinoko is now in quarters, and we welcome his wife Mrs Orinoko to the fold. Staff Sergeant Ken Hartley has returned from the Lands of the Green Eyed Idols to the North of East Chiswick, and tells us he will write of his exploits in detail later. We are running a small book in the Branch as to who will get them first, THE CORPS GAZETTE or The News of the World. Our adventure training in Bavaria was exhilerating and useful. Split into two parties of approximately a week each, we surmounted the Tagelberg (6000 feet) and the Rubihom (9000 feet). The latter with several awe-inspiring views, Staff Sergeant Jim Glees on became very affectionate towards the rock and had to be prized off like a limpet. We also did canoe emergency drill, which was cine filmed. Major Brian Mills apparently came out of the side of his canoe as it was over- turned ; we'll have to play that in slow motion to find exactly how he did it. The mountains re-echoed lo strange cries, like, * Bollo,' and the answering * Gattox,' much to the bewildered yodelling local's bemusement. But we all came through safely, with no more than a few blisters, and mild rigor mortis. Cap- tain John Cottington persuaded W02 Joe Fletcher not to wear his handkerchief at the back of his cap, for Joe, with. cap, handkerchief and glasses coming down off the mountain looked like the last Japanese senior NCO to surrender, with Sherpa Fisk in close attendance. Finally this month, I was asked to say something nice about Jim Gleeson, 1 British Corps A M^ M^L Jl ^ ^ tt^P ^ ^ L \M^^W ^ B ^m ^^M ^m OUR ' Trial * and tribulations have commenced in earnest. If you have got a badge you are em- ployed, it not, no job \ However, we have several Staff Clerks walking around with badges in- scribed ' CPL WRAC'—you can imagine the com- ments they provoked during the first few days. Beside the Stephenson Trial we are actively assisting in the Silver Jubilee preparations with the R and D Xerox machines going full belt most days, nights and weekends producing the goods* As a result the following are to be congratulated on the award of the Silver Jubilee Award: WOl MacGill, WOs2 Sam John- son and Bob Toland, Staff Sergeant Ian Lennox, Sergeant Roy Coe, Corporal Brian Skidmore and our Supervising Officer who also managed to obtain some of the precious medal ribbon from one of his many contacts, We have lots of farewells this month. The Supervising Office/R and D say farewell to one of its stalwarts, Corporal ' Ken ' Ken ward who goes as a civilian to seek his fortune in Holland. AQ Operations lose Staff Sergeant Dave Ross to the Humberside Constabulary while G Intelligence say fare- well to Lance Corporal Brian Lawrenson also to civvy street We welcome Private Stephen Julyan from Deepcut, Lance Corporal Susan Burfoot WRAC from UKLF and Private Kathy Early WRAC from Northern Ireland. In G SD it is a case of looking where you are going with Corporal Paul Gardiner passing his driving test and Private oi-.b Mays attempting it in the near future, 1 Division THIS is the BBC Home Service, and here is the news. It would appear that we are rapidly becoming a branch of BFBS* It was decided before we all shot off on Exer- cise Hurst Park that we would have our own radio net to contact not only the CRAOC, but also 7 and 11 OFPs by means ^ — < S 1 $ T W of 4 a radio ' rover * out on its own T&^^JSZ**^ *) in radio village.' Well, to cut a long story short, we at radio village managed to keep 'radio silence' for the whole exercise! It's my own belief that there was a slight error in the allocating of fre- quencies A •^ ORDNANCE BRANCH WH are pleased to report that the DDOS has had an apparently 93 — |
| Book number | R0246 |