RAOC Gazette - page 166
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| Corps | RAOC |
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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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1 British Corps and Lance Corporal Nicholson who got engaged-again. As your walking exploits appear elsewhere in THI, GAZETTE and Major Forrest won't pay me to say that he's been instructing climbing at 7 OFP summer camp, 'Rent a mention's* first months takings, sir, come to 53 pfgs. Half of his, sir, is, f course, yours, 7 ORDNANCE FIELD PARK FIRST mention this month must go to our lightweight tug-of- war team who, representing I Division on the RAOC BAOR Athletics Meeting won their event and in doing so beat the current BAOR Champions SSD Dulmen! There must be a moral in this somewhere—perhaps we must start training earlier in the year or not go on exercise quite so often! Other notable performances came from CSM Gumbs and Private Sydenham as members of the relay teams. ^ £L M^L ^ t ^t ^^^^^k ^B||^r ^ H ^m ^^W ^W ORDNANCE BRANCH WE are very pleased to report the return of both the DDOS, and his PA Mrs Maggie Gale to good health and the Branch. We commisscrale wilh Staff Sergeant Ken Hartley who has, following his recent trip to India, gone down wilh hepatitis. The lengths some people will go to evade writing to THE GAZETTE about (heir adventures is quite amazing. However, we wish him a speedy recovery, Staff Sergeant Jim Gleeson and Sergeant Barrie Fisk have both managed to sell their cars, we were not aware there was a Branch of St Dunstans over here, and some of Major Stewart RowselTs latest Saturday morning escapades would put the rag trade to shame, and Steptoe to flight, During the recent Jubilee Parade rehearsals WOl Gordon Halton had to play the part of our Colonel Commandant, for the day. The claim forms he later submitted frightened the life out of the Pay Gffice,now he wants white plumes on his next hat W02 Joe Fletcher is on * Paper Break *—our summer camp^-at the moment After surmounting the Rubihorn recently, the six foot wall should be no problem, providing he can use his Alpenstock. Major John Hammond and Captain John Cottington are doing yery well in local cricket competitions at the moment, and remaining remarkably injury free. This may just be pure good luck, so I shall refrain from pointing out that there are no exercises during the cricket season this year. Staff Sergeant Ches Hartley returned from leave bearing a black pudding of such girth, that on leaving it for a few moments, returned to find it had been decorated with candles, Most people agreed however, on its excellence with the excep- tion of one or two confederate abstainers! Lance Corporal Paddy Keating is away on a driver train- ing course at the moment, and whilst wishing him well, every- one is brushing up on their Green Cross Code, Sergeant Alan Mellitt is still in charge of the typing pool, and checking with the Medical Officer every month. Take your time! 7 Ordnance Field Park team winners of the lightweight tug-of- war representing 1 Division in the RAOC BAOR Athletics Meeting, !;S1£'?£p On the less energetic side many of us went to Sennelager to see the review of 4th Division by Her Majesty The Queen. A really excellent day well worth the early start (would you believe 0500 hours for some!) and only marred by the weather interfering with the free-fall Parachute display in which Captain Paddy O'Connell took part. Other events this month have included a very successful Disco Evening sponsored by the Junior Ranks and mainly organised by Lance Corporal Gallacher and Privates McNally and Evans, This was fallowed a week later by a families sports day and bar-b-q when the weather was very kind to us and to the many enthusiasts who found themselves intentionally or otherwise, in the water tank. Amongst the major attractions on the day were yet more free-fall parachuting, a war-dog demon- stration with Omo and Fang, and by far the most popular * Driver Heeps and his Noddy Train '! Amongst the prize win- ners on the sporting side the Turner, Walker, Mogridge and Gallacher families all seemed to do very well. We welcome Sergeant Hymers ACC, Lance Corporal Brown and Crafsman Gordon who must be the last persons to receive a posting order to 7 Ordnance Field Park, and we welcome back Captain Rook now an 'Advanced' Ordnance Officer and Sergeant Wadley from his UEL Course in Norway. Congratulations are in order to Corporals Outhwaite and Ettridge on promotion, to Corporal Graham who passed his Bl Staff Clerk Correspondence Course, and farewell to Sergeant Fearon ACC, Privates Cox and Buckley. Corporal Ken Kenward being presented with a farewell gift from his R and D friends by Captain J, Houseman at HQ 1 (BR) Corps on leaving the army. 1 Division HEADQUARTERS Sir, since 1 closed down ' Rent a men- tion,' there have been no volunteers to write THE GAZETTE notes. The con- spirators were, you'll remember sir, seek- ing to increase GAZETTE circulation and line their own pockets by publishing the names of their benefactors every month. Sad to say, sir, the criminals slipped up this month, by just submitting a list of names without any writing in between. 1 wouldn't have minded, sir, but your (and my) name wasn t included. So I have decided to run my own ' Rent a mention' service. First with their money on the table this month were WOl Fishwick and Lance Corporal Clamp whose wives both gave birth to a baby boy—not the same one, you understand — 11 ORDNANCE FIELD PARK THIS month THE CORPS GAZETTE notes are being written from Bavaria where the Unit is on its annual summer camp, We are fortunate to have the following personnel attached to us for the period of the exercise. One officer and four soldiers from 34 Panzer Battalion of the Bundeswehr. three soldiers from 15 COD and two attached officers from Shrivenham, Lieutenants Hazeldine and Simpson who have just successfully completed their second year. A large variety of build up training in the form of trekking, canoeing, orienteering, morning PT. shooting (which enable the Unit to complete its annual classification), first aid instruction and various potted items led to the major events of the camp- The first, a gruelling one and a half hours inter-platoon 128 |
| Book number | R0246 |