RAOC Gazette - page 242
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| Publication date | 1977 |
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| Early date | 1977 |
| Late date | 1977 |
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on the weekly Hash on 22nd September had been closely studied id was said to be very good. All factors had been examined ;id assessed and estimates as lo the time he would take varied om one hour twenty minutes (presumably wind-assisted) to .no hundred hours ten minutes ten seconds. (One person even oared to suggest that he wouldn't complete the course.) The most popular estimate was about six hours. It was too dark initially to assess progress. The first chance for this was at the Brewery Inn in Coalport, reached through the little villages of Leighton and Buildwas and through the town of Ironbridge. There the route passed the Iron Bridge, built by Thomas Tel- ford in 1779—the first in the world. His way also went past the original Coalport potteries and followed the banks of the river Severn, The original estimate for his arrival at the Brewery Inn vas 0840 hours but he actually made it by 0820 hours, and jighl miles were already gone. The next stage was all uphill and would present a stiff test since it was five miles of the Silkin Way along the course of the old LMS railway. The Sil- kin Way has been resurfaced by the Telford Development Corporation and when completed will stretch from one end of Telford New Town to the other, a distance of about fifteen miles. His fast pace was maintained along the Silkin Way to where it ends at present, at the District Council offices at Malin- slee, where he arrived at 0940 hours. More coffee was ad- ministered and he was on his way through the difficult central "elford portion of the route through the roundabouts at the main road junctions, but once past that complex the route was downhill all the way and^jHong good pavemented surfaces. By this time the photographers were about and he skirted the Depot and arrived at the Barracks where a reception committee, in- cluding Mrs Short and the Brigadier's son, were waiting for him. The crowd was smaller than expected because he had now taken almost an hour off the officially-estimated time. Two laps of the sports field completed the twenty miles in five hours eleven minutes seventeen seconds. FINISH rlnllyin John Robertson has brought much credit to himself and the Unit by his efforts and his recent selection for the Army team is an honour well deserved. Due to the forthcoming closure of the Unit, the rundown of personnel is more evident as post- ings out notifications are received all the time. Cries of " Where on earth is Benbecula?" can be heard from some of the non RAOC types! ! Inevitably this rundown is going to affect the ability to turn out teams in the winter sports leagues but every effort is nevertheless being made to * show the flag.' The DGOS challenge to the over forties is ' receiving at- tention * at the present time with the Commandant setting the standard. He can be seen on occasions running in the locality of the surrounding countryside training to achieve his target time. The remainder of this elite band wait with some trepida- tion to see the outcome! The readers may be under the impression that with all these non-working type activities being reported on that no work takes place here. I can assure you it does! Arrivals and departures for this month are: —Postings Out: Private Smith, Staff Sergeant Wiggell, W02 Horns by and Lance Corporal Chegwin. Postings In: Corporal Robins and Private Bunnell. Returning to the Outside World\ Corporal Lee, WOl Cox and Lance Corporal Taylor. Central Ammunition Depot Kineton HEADQUARTERS 45 COMPANY and 221 Ammunition Platoon are in the news again this month. The highlight of their year's training with 10 Ordnance Sup- port Battalion came in September when for two weeks they deployed in Denmark in support of 6 Field Force. Despite a somewhat disappointing Logistic Exercise, the Company learnt much from the actual move to Denmark and subsequent re- covery to Kineton. Lance Corporal John Edwards soon discovered the reason for Local Overseas Allow- ance when he paid nearly £2 for a true Danish ' meal'—a wafer of cheese, a bacon rind, a slice of cucumber, one prawn and a wafer of ham garnished with a minute anchovy! One day's WE HAVE OUR TRADITIONS TOO! We at Gieves and Hawkes may enjoy a sense of history because we dressed the Iron Duke and Nelson, invented the Shako, the cavalry head-dress, were first to make the Solar Topee and have been tailor- ing uniforms for over two-hundred years, but we're certainly not hidebound! Tired and weary but we finished. In all, one thousand five hundred and forty one tickets had been sold and the first prize m that competition was won by Mr Jim Brown of 34 Central Workshop whose estimates was only three seconds adrift. Second and third were David Williams and Roger Lewis of the Donnington Division of DSM and 34 Central Workshop respectively. The first prize was nearly £54.00 but in spite of that £6K65p was already safely banked for the Appeal Fund and prizes were awarded to the three winners less than forty eight hours later. At the time of writing the proceeds from sponsorship are not yet available, but we hope for about £200 from this venture. The Brigadier has sore feet but otherwise all he will say is that the beer tasted good and the guys who were on the 6 o'clock shift at the Ironbridge Power Station are very bad drivers, particularly when they are late for work. Each garment—uniform or suit—is cut and tailored by hand to our own exacting standards. We have, after all, built a tradition of success by providing clothes which, for generations, have been accepted as the very best • . . Today we not only continue to tailor uniforms and suits to the highest standards, we also offer a fine choice of ready-to-wear clothes. Suits, blazers, trousers, knitwear, shirts, ties and shoes in classical and modern styles, including Britains largest range of Chester Barrie suits and topcoats, all await you at Savile Row. At*4jr*H* TAJLHC nm^<iiH4Bvinrm ("SIEVES & HAWKES of Savile Row N o . I Savile Row London W . I . Central Ammunition Depot Bramley A CHANGE of style this month due to a change of ' scribe.' Our usual writer is off yet again rowing or canoeing or whatever he does at times like these. Seriously though, Captain No. I High Street Camber ley Telephone 01-434 2001 Telephone 0276-63*59 and at:— Bath, Bexhitt, Brockenhurst, Chester, Eastbourne, Edinburgh, Harrow, Leicester, Plymouth, Portsmouth and Winch ester. |
| Book number | R0246 |