RAOC Gazette - page 236
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| Corps | RAOC |
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| Material type | Journals |
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| Full title | RAOC Gazette |
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| Publication date | 1977 |
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| Colour | No |
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| Early date | 1977 |
| Late date | 1977 |
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ARMY CATALOGUING AUTHORITY, WOOLWICH ,)UR first article (August GAZETTE) was 'guillotined' before publication, and thus gives the impression that there are some ive military and four hundred and one civilians packed into Headquarters Building 37 Royal Arsenal—anyone knowing the location must be really concerned—the * queues in the loos' would be really something, and our chances of recruiting staff reduced to zero unless this anomally is corrected. The printed version of our original account omitted the fact that there are four Agencies under our control, located at Woolwich, Kidbrooke, Didcot and Chilwdl. In addition both the Equipment Table Production Centre RAOC and CES Secretariat are now also under our wing as the result of the last I of E Inspection. The total staff are therefore fairly well dispersed between these various locations. Any readers having friends in Headquarters ACA may therefore rest assured that all is well—there are no cases requiring medical attention—yet! Training Centre HEADQUARTERS THERE has been a considerable change of staff since our last notes in THE GAZETTE, SO here is a run down of the military personnel within the Headquarters. The Commander is Briga- dier Dennison; SOI Lieutenant Colonel Day; GS02 Major Baines; DAA and QMG Major Cooke and the S03 SD Lieuten- ant Colonel Anton bf 4ie WRAC. The clerical staff is headed by WOl Dennis Johnston G Staff Assistant/Superintending Clerk; Sergeant Dick Lawrence Chief Clerk G ; Sergeant Andy Thomson Chief Clerk AQ and Private Simpson of the WRAC in the registry. August was a very quiet month with everyone getting in their hard earned leave. The Commander finally arrived back from his sailing holiday after being stranded for twenty four hours in France, by a gale. The SOI returned from leave to find he was away again for a week on a course at Easingwoald. Major Cooke has had a spell in hospital but is back home resting and we wish him a speedy recovery. WOl Johnston has no sooner got his feet under the table to find he is now the trainer of the Training Centre soccer team. Finally we say farewell to WOl Larry Cunningham and wish him all the best in civilian life and to Sergeant Reg Smith on his posting to Donnington after five years in Blackdown. CENTRAL VOLUNTEER HEADQUARTERS WE thought we would remind our readers that Central Volunteer Headquarters RAOC, is still very much a hive of activity, with its small band of hard worked staff both military and civilian helping to keep our TAVR Sponsored Units documented, technically efficient and well trained. On the AQ side Major P. K, Fleming has taken over as S02 AQ from Major M. Newman, and quite remarkably we have heard very few war stories of the fighting * 4th Division * from Major Fleming or little on that fascinating subject of statistics from Major Newman who recently attended a pre Manchester Statistics Course at Beaconsfield. The S02 (Training) Major J. Cranmer is at present ' rough- ing it' in Cyprus with members of 134 Vehicle Platoon, un- fortunately he could not arrange for the RAF to air freight his yacht 'Min-o-Din' to Cyprus as well. In the absence of the S02 (Training) our erstwhile training officers Captains Kirby and Bentley are looking as harassed as ever, is it three or four extra recruit courses they have run this year! The RSM WOl Hendry is at present occupied with a sponsored walk in aid of Kidney Research, but his team of PSIs namely Staff Sergeant Kirkbride (Petroleum), Staff Sergeant MacDonald (Stores), Staff Sergeant Pitts (Clerical), Staff Sergeant Young (RD) and Staff Sergeant Foster (Laundry) keep the train- ing cycle going. We would like to congratulate Staff Sergeant Kirkbnde on his being awarded the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal which was presented to him by the Commander Central Volunteer Headquarters RAOC, Colonel Hind, in the Training Centre Sergeants Mess. Farewells will be in order shortly for Staff Sergeant Mac- Donald who is posted to the School of Ammunition and Staff Sergeant Pitts who is awaiting the call to a Work Study appoint- ment. Finally congratulations to Staff Sergeant Foster on passing his EPC(A). SCHOOL OF ORDNANCE NOT too much to offer this month but gems nevertheless. The School is now back in full swing following the August block leave with students of all shapes, sizes and colour pouring in. The leave of a month ago is already a forlorn memory. We welcome to the staff of the School Major Monty Murty on exchange from the United States Army. He is already making his mark here having supported the Mess Car Rally admirably if not successfully. Also Corporal, now Sergeant, Webster to whom congratulations on promotion are due in addi- tion. The departures of Major Derek Lance, to Manchester University and Sergeant Franklin to civilian life are mourned by us all. We thank them for all they have done and wish them every success for the future. Lance Corporal Knox, not satisfied with two periods of endurance training and one of circuit training per week, still runs at the slightest provocation. Despite all this he still has energy left over for his work. He recently took part in a one hundred miles sponsored run in a week for The National Kidney Research Fund, Needless to say he completed it leaving us all filled with admiration but with now empty Dockets' APPRENTICES COLLEGE ON the 11th August the DGOS took the salute at the Summer Term Passing Out Parade. One hundred and nineteen Ap- prentices passed out into adult service including the last eight junior soldiers of the Intelligence Corps to be trained at the College. The DC OS inspects the parade. We have welcomed, in place of the term leavers, an intake of two hundred and fourteen recruits who are looking forward to an extremely active three months. It is not often that our civilian staff get a mention in THE GAZETTE Notes but we have recently said goodbye to three stalwarts of the College. Mr Frederick Farr has left the Orderly Room after fourteen years service, Mrs ' Biddy' Mclntyre leaves the PJRC after ten years and Mr Stan Cummings has left us after nineteen years work around the Garrison. We wish them all the very best of luck for the future. DEAD-LINE DATE FOR RECEIPT OF COPY WILL ALL contributors kindly note that the deadline date for receipt of copy at THE GAZETTE Office really is the 29th of the month for publication a month later, 179 — |
| Book number | R0246 |