RAOC Gazette - page 154
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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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We have recently said goodbye to Captain Field on posting to Suffield, Lance Corporal Jock Leitch, Sergeant Colin Dews- bury, Lance Corporal Kevin Smith and Private Jos Warner. We welcome Captain Blatherwick, Lance Corporals Fiona Hellings, Jan Bullyment and Dave Whiteneld to the Intelligence Section and Sergeant John Smith. Lance Corporals Sieve Raw, 4 Tiny' Lawrence, Privates Steve Turner and Steve Eke to the headquarters staff. United Kingdom Land Forces ORDNANCE BRANCH TO our new Chief, Brigadier Charles Smith, we give a warm welcome. He has already started seeing his wide UKLF parish with a series of visits to RD Hereford, Thatcham and to 10 Ordnance Support Battalion. To our ex Chief Fire Adviser, Gordon Mitchell, go our hearty congratulations on his recent elevation to Chief Fire Service Officer (AD). Also that his long theologi- cal training for many years has now resulted in his ordination as a Deacon, which took place in Salisbury Cathedral, The Branch is now settling down to normality after changes of staff and a light flutter connected with Belize of course not forgetting the Ordnance participation in arranging the Com- mander-in-Chiefs Silver Jubilee Ball, its Chairman being Colonel John Gregan—sweat, tears and blood. HEADQUARTERS THE Headquarters seems to be going through a relatively quiet period with just the Belize/Guatemala confrontation to keep the SD2 clerks (plus their co-opted non SD2 colleagues) on their toes. During the early part of July the sun blazed through our huge picture windows reducing most of us to limp rags, and to open a window in search of a breeze was to invite chaos as streams of rogue air swept papers and signals, classified and unclassified, from desk tops into corridors. Still it gave the Headquarters Security Section something to do. Few personality reports are possible due largely to the absence on leave of so many of our personalities. Still here 16 CLIFFORD STREET, SAVILE ROW, LONDON W1X 2H&TEU01734 2248 and literally plodding on our new Superintending Clerk, Con- ductor Iain Leggatt, can be seen daily doing ten circuits of the playing field behind the Sergeants Mess but whether this is simply a fitness-fetish or preparation for the 4,000 metres in the Moscow Olympics isn't known. W02 Tom Atkins, our senior PR Photographer seems to walk with a lighter gait too. due no doubt to the arrival of his posting order to Public Relations Services BAOR in August. We welcome to the Wilton fold, as Chief Clerk Ordnance Branch, W02 Allan Braithwaite. He replaces SSM John Rimmer who has secured a job up the road a bit at Head- quarters North West District. Nice one, John. The UKCICC Superintending Clerk, Conductor Brian Waddoups. has headed for civilian life and he has been ably replaced by SSM Malcolm Hayward, who has decided to spend his last year in the service in this neck of the woods. (How did you manage to wangle that Warrant Officer's quarter at Christen urch, Malcolm'?), In closing, a final fond farewell must be expressed to Staff Sergeant Dereck Shipley who will have become a civilian again by the time these notes go to press. ADP Development Team (UKLF) THE UKLF Computer System, housed in Dieppe Block UKLF, was opened by the Commander-in-Chief, General Sir Edwin Bramall, on the 18th October 1976. Since that date the com- puter has been happily belching paper, facts and figures. We have but three Corps members. Lieutenant Colonel C. E. G, Hellis now firmly in charge as GSOl(W) ADP, Chief Clerk Mick Ellis who spends little time in the office as work clashes badly with his badminton matches and Corporal Jim Wilde. Jim has been playing daddy to thirty local underprivileged children by helping to arrange a Jubilee party for them, which went very successfully. As the computer hasn't yet learnt to talk this is all the input for the moment, from the ADPDT. South East District THTS month we have seen more person- ality changes among District military staff. In Headquarters South East we wel- come Lieutenant Colonel Keith Holtby from DLSA who has taken over as DADOS Administration / Organisation from Lieutenant Colonel Bertie Ortiger. We won't say farewell to Lieutenant Colonel Ortiger just yet as his plans are not yet finalised. We also welcome our new DADOS Materiels, Major Gran- ville Holt from Headquarters DGOS. Major Mark McLellan is now fully resettled and we wish both Molly his wife, and himself, all the very best of luck for the future. Farewells are also due to Lieutenant Colonel Brian Hubbard, OC OSU Liphook. Lieutenant Colonel Hubbard has com- pleted his Resettlement Course and he takes up a Retired Officers appointment with the RAMC at Mytchett in Septem- ber. We wish him all the best in his new job. Major Len Liechti will be commanding the OSU for the immediate future* In other respects it has not been a newsworthy month al- though with the training season in full swing it has been sufficiently busy, in all departments, Eastern District SUMMER is fitfully here, which means that many potential contributors have gone elsewhere for the sun on holiday, But a few of our worthies are still about and among them is Major Carl Dicker, who is given pride of place again this month. With the guidance and help of our CRAOC, Lieutenant Colonel David Venning, Carl has played a big part in organising the recent successful GOCs Jubilee Fair which produced oyer £1,600 for charity. If you are mentioned in despatches a third time running, Carl, you'll be entitled to a cigar. For two we«ks in July, Captain Bob Stafford-Curtis and the Supply Depot staff, hosted 6 Supply Platoon RAOC (TAVR), commanded by Captain Oliver Sunderland, While training — 116 — |
| Book number | R0246 |