RAOC Gazette - page 155
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| Full title | RAOC Gazette |
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| Publication date | 1977 |
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| Early date | 1977 |
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t , vnpany has set the Battalion over forties' squad a difficult ; : . :et to beat by complying, at the tender age of fifty, an ...••",•!ally timed and supervised three mile run in seventeen ii Mites seventeen seconds. Thirty six members of 16 Battalion, including six WRAC, levelled up to Capcl Curigor for Exercise Capel Jaunt on the 9th July for a spot of adventurous training in the hills. The weather on the way up was glorious but there were dark nmtterings of " It'll rain tomorrow " from the pessimists among the party. In fact it did not rain, at least, not until Wednesday night but more of that later. On the Sunday Second Lieuten- ant Lace, Corporals (XConnelL Duncalfe and Roper, Lance Corporal Low and Privates Dunn and Mcintosh set out to walk over the Devils Kitchen. This, although tricky and steep, was accomplished without too much effort although, because of bHliant sunshine all were glowing on arrival at the other end. The next day it was decided to try something rather bigger— Snowdon—with the whole party involved but splitting into two groups to tackle the climb. Having decided to make the most of the weather all were in T-Shins and consequently ail were either burnt or, if lucky, bronzed. The view at the top was magnificent and the journey was much easier going down than up. Stopping at a small lake half way, two members of D Company took a dip (fully clothed and not entirely volun- tarily!). The Wednesday was the day used to trek up Craig- p-iwr to camp overnight near the summit. Despite assurances t;:at the weather would be so hot that fly sheets would not be required on the tents all awoke the next morning, or rather gave up pretending to sleep, in six inches of water! Still, none had exposure and they plodded on regardless and were dry before reaching base camp. D Company WRAC entered the South East District Inter- Unit Athletic Championships at Aldershot along with six other units. The meeting opened with the first event for women, the long jump, which D Company won. From then on they went from strength to strength managing a good placing in all events. By the time the last event—the 4 x 1 metres relay—was due to be run three units were neck and neck. The race was on, and D Company were home and dry reaching the tape first; this gave victory overall but only beating the second team by one point and the third team by two points. This success led to the Women's Inter-Unit Finals held once again at Aldershot, with the Company representing South East District (West). Seven teams qualified including a team from Kraefeld in BAOR. This championship proved to be even more exciting than the qualifying rounds and again it all depended on the 4 x 100 metres relay. D Company and 10 Company were at forty one points each, both fighting hard for nrst place with the BAOR team a very close third. The gun went for the start of the relay; the spectators were having their monies-worth and the cheering reached a remarkable crescendo. Again D Company managed to break through— winning the relay and equalling the best performance time of 52.4 seconds held by the WRAC Centre, Guildford, since 1972. D Company had now completed the double, so with the trophy they set off back to Bicester to recover from the excitement. A team from D Company entered the swimming champion- ships at Aldershot. To start the afternoon off well they won tpe 100 yards breaststroke and by 1630 hours, after winning the 4 x 3 3 | freestyle relay, D Company were presented with the winners cup, dancers and even tug-of-war teams took part, and for a while, Chilwell became a second Braemar, This month we say farewell to Colonel Reggie Edwards, our SSO, who has done so much for the Garrison over the last three and a half years. Both he and his charming wife Ann will be sorely missed. We also say farewell to Major Mat Jones, Major Derrnot Cronin and Captain John Wynn, all prominent in Garrison activities. Apart from Dermot Cronin, all the aforementioned are off to BAOR—AG9 have done well! Major Geoff Albert is also off to Northern Ireland on an emergency tour, The Sergeants Mess held their Summer Ball which as is customary went on into the early hours. We understand that the day afterwards was cancelled, due to lack of interest. We welcome this month Colonel Aubrey Whent, Major John Duggan and Major Frank Smith and hope they will enjoy their stay at Chilwell. Central Ordnance Depot Donnington LONG Service and Good Conduct medals have been presented by the Commandant during the month to W 2 Roud, seen in our photograph with his wife and the Brigadier, to Corporal Metcalfe and Private Usher who must be one of the few Private soldiers to receive this coveted award. Brigadier Short with W 2 and Mrs Roud after presentation of the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal. Our minor units team came nineteenth in the Bisley Skill- at-Arms Championship and we can report that twenty of our over-forties have already completed their basic Fitness Test 3 voluntarily, in advance of the scheduled requirement which was to do so in April 1978, We expect very shortly to obtain the first certificates from the DGOS as having met his fitness challenge. Central Ordnance Depot Chilwell IN spite of variable weather we succeeded in holding two of the main events this month in fine weather. The only one to $ $ * suffer was the Base Organisation Tennis Competition which was unfortunately affected by rain, but nevertheless was completed and very successful. The other two events were the Chil- well Garrison Fete held on 9th July which, from first reports, appears to have been even more successful than previously. The success of the Fete was of course solely due to the prodigious efforts and long hours put in to the preparations by the civilian and military staff and the wives '"•' Chilwell Garrison, The second notable event, although not J^ganised by us, was the Nottinghamshire Pipe Band Contest held on our T sports field. The Chieftain for this most colourful and • tuneful event was Brigadier John Smith (Retd), a former Commandant. Some twenty seven bands, Scottish country W — Central Ammunition Depot Bramley THE most important visit we have had recently was by Major General Callan who visited us on the 24th June. The DGOS spent a full day touring the Depot. HMS Bubble, the Guided Weapons float, took to the road again this month at the Basingstoke Carnival. The Galleon was masterminded by Lance Corporal Ribs McDonald who was quoted in the local papers as being a ' shy young soldier.' If only they knew! The one hundred and fifty floats in the Carnival were split into six classes. HMS Bubble won her class, the Non-Industrial Clubs class and the overall Challenge Cup, She also won the Hampshire Carpet and Furniture Cup. After beating COD Donnington in the semi-final, Bramley met 10 Ordnance Support Battalion in the Final of the DGOS Cricket Cup. Having scored one hundred and thirty eight runs for seven Bramley won by sixteen runs with all members of the team contributing to the success in retaining the trophy. Cap- tain Steve Goldring was awarded the Man of the Match trophy 119 — |
| Book number | R0246 |