RAOC Gazette - page 197
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| Publication date | 1977 |
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| Early date | 1977 |
| Late date | 1977 |
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Captain Harry Buck of C Supplies fame h off to AYSC Harrogate. He has already handed over to Major Bob Barnes from Bielefeld. We wish them both the best in their new appointments. Lastly we have seen the departure of Lieutenant Peter Veale who having successfully managed the Quartermaster tasks of AAD 77, is off to Donnington with our good wishes and prayers of gratitude. What would our lives be like without a Quarter Master to troubleshoot the Aldershot Display? P.5. Sergeant (about-to-be-Staff Sergeant) David Holvey is com- plaining that he has never been mentioned in THL- GAZETTE, He is leaving Puckeridge Ammunition Compound for Cyprus soon and we jealously wysh him the best. North East District CONGRATULATIONS to L i e u t e n a n t Paul Osborne on the occasion of his marriage to Miss Jane Grieve at St George's Garrison Church Strensall on 23rd July. Ordnance Officers of the Dis- trict presented a set of wine glasses to the happy couple. Congratulations to W02 Derek Gill, Chief Clerk Ordnance Branch, on being presented with the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal. The presentation was made at a ceremony attended by Derek's wife and daughter together with members of CRAOC Staff and Sergeants Mess. WOZ Derek Cill with his wife and daughter after the presenta- tion of his Long Service and Goad Conduct Medal at York. We say farewell to Major Derek Markham on posting and Captain Ernie Bolton AYSC Harrogate who leaves the army on retirement, we wish both the best of luck. Welcome to Major Peter Courtney-Green on his appoint- ment to SATO(NX Captain Harry Buck to AYSC Harrogate and Captain John Hopkinson to 9 AYT, we trust that their stay in the District will be a happy one. CRAOC is at present away on his Bricks and Mortar Course, We understand from the latest reports that the cement mixing is going well but that the woodwork is a little more tedious; a good mixer usually smooths things out eventually. West Midland District LOOKING through back numbers of THE GAZETTE we do not appear to have written anything recently, so it is time to bring Shrewsbury back on to the map. Our usual scribe, Captain David Wright, has departed for a six months watch keeping tour and so for the next few months someone else will be keeping the news flowing. The most notable event to affect the branch must have been the retirement of Tom Cope, our POL Clerk. Tom has completed thirty eight years service with the Civil Service broken only by his war time service with RASC as a Staff Clerk which took him to West Africa for a spell. He has spent all his service in the Shrewsbury area and was the longest serving member of the Headquarters staff when he left. We all wish him and his wife. May. the very best in his retirement. Another event was the presentation of the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal by the GOC to Corporal William Jackson who is spend- ing his last few months in the Headquarters prior to leaving the Army. Our ROWO. W02 Jones, managed two weeks in Norway on exercise with the SAS which he seemed to enjoy and our Chief Clerk went into hospital with a suspected ulcer and came out eight weeks later, via RAF Headiey Court with arthritis in his spine. This he did not enjoy though is managing to get around reasonably well, Another departure from the Branch and RAOC was that of WO I Goodwin who also came to Shrewsbury for his last six months in the service. He has landed himself a good job and we wish him all the best in civilian life. South West District HEADQUARTERS •THERE has been a great deal of reorganising going on as 3 Division prepare to leave the District for BAOR. Among other changes has been the appearance of 8 Field Force, The current Ordnance incumbent is Captain A. D. Kemp who appears to be a general factotum in that Headquarters in the absence of a Staff L Captain Q ' and Clerical Staff. Anyway, he takes life in a good natured manner and plays the odd game of cricket for the Corps to keep some degree of sanity. Also arrived is Captain J. F. Simpson who replaces Cap- tain A. W. Lyons as Staff Captain (Materiel) his only state- ment after a week's handover is that he is determined to bring English back as a language to be used in the Corps—well, time will tell Mrs Betty Roberts and her ferocious puppy no longer grace the Administrative Office under the wary eye of W02 Gardner. Greener fields are in the " Computer WorltJ " at the RPO Taunton, SUPPLY DEPOT BULFORD IN addition to the usual silly season activities on the Plain, which increases with the sun and lack of rain, the Depot under- took to sponsor the annual training for 22 Supply Platoon TAVR. On being duly invaded we shrugged off our " Bui- forditis" and reached for martial cloaks and weapons. Major General P. J. O'B. Minogue visited the volunteers and presented the Efficiency Medal (TAVR) to Sergeant Jones, the. platoon's master butcher. Sergeant Jones finds gainful employ- ment as a Vehicle Inspector at COD Donnington when he is not engaged in his military duties with the TAVR, The keen- ness and enthusiasm displayed by the TAVR soldiers through- out the training was most gratifying and we look forward to the opportunity of sponsoring them again at some future date. Congratulations to Sergeant A. Fyfe, the Depot Master Butcher, on being awarded the Queens Silver Jubilee Medal, Good wishes also go to Private Gairns, another butcher, and his wife Jane on the birth of their son (another butcher?). 3 Division HEADQUARTERS THE CRAOC's Exercise Off Side in the Isle of Man took place largely for the 'benefit* of Technical and Staff Clerks of the Headquarters. A very * active * six days was spent on the island at our base at Jurby. The majority of mornings began at 0700 road running for three miles to the sea, with the ' ice men ' Privates Chris Eades and Maurice Martin 6 actually going for a swim. Private Jock * McKaig had to be restrained on a number of occasions from attempting to swim to the coast of Scotland. Snaefell was conquered, and by the end of the six days, we had climbed every mountain on the island. The night life was sampled by all with Private * Slick' Brown sampling it seemed, more than others. July saw the beginning of the move to Soest. The Corridors of Power are strewn with packing boxes filled with office requisites and publications to set up Headquarters in BAOR. — 152 — |
| Book number | R0246 |