RAOC Gazette - page 169
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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 Combaf- Supplies Battalion I :• main event of this month here in Sennelager has naturally iv n the Silver Jubilee Review. Although the Battalion itself w ,, not on parade, being Corps Troops, we were represented on the static display by the Petroleum Platoon along with their equipment. Those in the Corps who know the sort of gear thai petroleum operators lug around will appreciate the problems, as they were given one hour only to set up their display once Her Majesty had left the area for lunch. Need- less to say ail went without a hitch on the day! Meanwhile back at the ranch, or more correctly, John Buchan School, the remainder of the Battalion were putting the final touches to the VIP Lunch. This event has involved the Si-cond-in-Command, Major Stuart Portman, and a large staff in organising a lunch for three hundred and fifty Major Generals or equivalent and their wives. The ' behind the scenes * work tor this included flying orchids from Singapore and collecting Regimental Silver from over thirty different major units. On the day, once again, all went well and a very harassed Second- in-Command was at last able to smile. All our Companies have now returned from Summer Camp. 49 Company came second in a NATO football tournament. 44 came first and second in a Bundeswehr orienteering com- petition in which twenty allied teams competed. They were presented with medals and the Company with a plaque. The Battalion sports day was won by 43 Company on a very hot day. Private Brown set up an (unconfirmed) RAOC record for the one hundred metres. Following this we sent an athletics team to the Corps meeting at Moenchengladbach and came fifth. This is the first time we have sent a team for some time and with more preparation and training we will do better next year, The shooting team continues to flourish and performed very well in the fifteenth International Shooting Competition at Rendsburg. Out of one hundred and two teams from six countries we came eighth—a very creditable result. A team from 43 Company is training for the Wahncrheide marches; a trial march at Rheindahlen has just been completed without ill effect and the prospects look good. At the time of writing we have Captain Johannes Kristiansen from the Danish Army on attachment, Congratulations go to Private Hall on his marriage, and further congratulations to Sergeant Hailes on his marriage. Congratulations also to Lance Corporal and Mrs Brown and Corporal and Mrs Dobrowolski on recently becoming parents. We say farewell to Sergeants Bates and Pierce, Corporals i >ugh, Holmes and Edgar, Lance Corporal Moffet, and Privates L .:ghes, Hart, Gledhill, Jacklin and Blinco. We say a big * howdy' to W02 Selvon. Corporals Mc- Seveny, Hoyland, Hotchkiss and Bone, Lance Corporals Purslow and Welton, and Privates Sissons, Morrow and Ahsam. \ Corps Troops Central THE DADOS (Materiels) Major Carpenter, who just recently completed a three week German course at Mulheim appeared n- .he office for five days and then disappeared on two weeks leave no doubt to practice his German on the local populace. <Not bad after twenty odd years marriage to a local girl.) Mrs O'Neill, wife of W02 O'Neill OIC Control, nutured fond hopes that with the disappearance of the late CRAOC, Lieutenant C o r n e l Clayton, she would see more of her husband in the evenings and weekends. But not so, Mhe new CRAOC, Lieutenant Colonel Man is equally fond of a game of tennis! Not to mention other sporty activities in which we are en- thusiastically led by the Second-in-Command Major Braithwaite. T:v;se callisthenics involve running through the Teutoburger- wJd twice a week. The AOWO and the Chief Clerk enjoy an occasional rambling nature study, but protest loudly and vehemently at observing the birds and the bees at speed! A ceremony was held in Richmond Barracks Sergeants Mess where the CRAOC presented the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal to WO I B. E, Irwin and W02 M. Wood. He also presented Jubilee Medals to Major Cowcll, Captain Scott, WOs2 Hulston, O'Neill, Greenaway and Staff Sergeant Gate. Congratulations to Corporal and Mrs Dodds on the birth of their son Neil. i WR) CORPS TROOPS ORDNANCE FIELD PARK Wfcl began the month of June by going on a long summer exercise, the earlier part of which was mentioned in the last notes. The Unit went back to the woods after a short time in the village and prepared for the wives 1 visit. Major Co well explained to them what we did on exercise and our role. We then gave various demonstrations of almost all Facets of an Ordnance Field Park in the field and one or two extra. Sergeant Bolam was tasked with looking after the children who proceeded to learn the basic task of soldiering. When the exercise had ended various people prepared for a multitude of sporting activities. The athletes returned a fourth place at Travers Clarke. Lance Corporal Wells won a silver and two bronze medals, Private Drabble a silver, Lance Corporal Warden two bronze and Private Lewis a bronze. The relay teams won a silver in the medley and a bronze in both the 4 x 1 metres and 4 x 2 metres relays. The cricketers, unfortunately, lost to 15 Field Workshop in the quarter finals of the 2 Division Minor Units Champion- ships after a hard fought match. Staff Sergeant Holding, playing golf for the Corps against REME, won the fourball game and halved his singles. The final result was six all with the RAOC retaining the trophy. Staff was selected for the Benson and Hedges Trophy in the BAOR Inter Corps Championship at Sennelager, Corporal Foster and Lance Corporal Polland have been out walking for medals in the favourite German pastime of Volkslauf. They have both achieved a gold medal each so far and arc hoping for more later. 1 (BR) CORPS STORES COMPANY WE don't wish to bore our readers with details of our in- spections, visits, etc, however, we have opened up our transit hotel to the pipes and drums of 4 RTR, for the duration of the massed band display. They will be remembered most for their marching up and down outside the Company Head- quarters windows, Have you ever watched a typist typing in time to Amazing Grace? One of our super duper storemen, Private Taff Good- win, took it into his own head to test the notorious DMS boot by testing its crushing power, using MHE and a concrete pillar, unfortunately his foot was still inside the boot, (* Footnote * the boot failed the test.) We wish him a speedy recovery. On the sporting side Corporal John Griffiths was once again selected for Corps football, Staff Sergeant Bob Wilson represented the Corps at golf. Sergeant Jimmy Mallon and Private Julian Bourne attended a free fall course, unfortunately Julian Bourne injured his ankle on his first descent, but Jim Mailon did very well, achieving three seconds delay drops on completion of his course. The OC Major Peter Freeman along with certain Warrant Officers have been seen nearly every morning in tracksuits, could something be brewing, we all ask? We say goodbye to Corporals Griffiths and McNeil, and welcome Corporal Miller and Private Love, 85 SUPPLY DEPOT STRANGE happenings in the Depot lately; we have increased our commodities on offer to Cash Messing Units to include 1 Mini-Caravans' and cut price hops to Malta. The Officer Commanding inaugurated both these events by putting his 1 Caravan ' up for sale and then disappearing to Malta for a week leaving the rest of us to face the stony stares and giggles of prospective buyers of the 'Caravan.' Sergeant Tommy Brough is on a recce trip to Belize to see if it's worth offering weekends there to regular customers, We are becoming quite efficient at the travel business. Apart from the Officer Commanding and Tommy having a rest, Sergeant Rip Kirby and daughter are taking a trip to civvy street this month and Corporal George Holmes and his shadow Private Bill McCallum keep making excursions to places unknown—George comes back with a smile on his face and longer hair, whilst Bill returns with a hangdog expression and shorter hair. Private Tich Hornsby and family are leaving us for a more peaceful life at Bui ford. The Master Butcher, Staff Sergeant Dick Swann is keeping his hand in at mystery tours. The last mystery tour was a riot of fun—the mystery was when would the coach windscreen fall in? And/or would we get to the tulip fields? Neither hap- pened as it turned out—but everyone enjoyed the day. The social side of life here seems to have been heard about all over the world, Sergeant Danny Lomas has come back from Salala and Corporal Des Hopwood has arrived from UK. Both just in time to help out with preparations for the RAOC Association Barbeque and Disco. BE Tests were arranged so that they did not follow one of Dick Swann's feasts and lo and behold we all passed. |
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