RAOC Gazette - page 249
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| Publication date | 1977 |
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| Early date | 1977 |
| Late date | 1977 |
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w The ladies hockey team—or the Wulfen Royalls—as they are professionally known, has so far had an unbeaten record, they haven't played a game yet! Nevertheless they did play a couple of practice games against th€ men's team and scored ..,'. All other sports are doing well and we are in full prepara- tion for the BFT with everyone running three times a week, Lance Corporal Paddy Keating is on Another course, and Corporal Hugh Ward—congratulations on his promotion—has passed his blubber test, As for Jim—they also wait, those who stand and serve. 1 Division HEADQUARTERS CONDUCTOR ARTHUR BRILL has finally departed, not to South Africa as he intended, but to the United Kingdom, This change of plan was forced upon him and with only two weeks in which to make alternative arrangements, it is little ^ ^ ^-^S?~> wonder that he lost weight. It stood him ^a^^jKx^!^S ' n g o o d s t e a d > n i s c a r w a s s o l o a d e ^ that ^ ^**J-**^ ** Arthur could have o n jy a S ii m -Hne squeezed into it. Major John Hammond and Sergeant Alan Cowlishaw have, in the meantime, 'joined* us from Nienburg. They did belong to us really, only the location has changed. Nice to have you along the corridor, C Supplies! Second Lieutenant Lloyd Roberts is also welcomed as Adjutant and has already shown a clean pair of heels to the majority in our twice weekly runs. The way he set off with Major Roger Forrest I thought I'd catch him half way round but I often forget that Fve been drinking, smoking and doing other naughty things for the last twenty years. Welcome also to Private Gordon Heaps who has done a ' swap * with Lance Corporal Tom Nicholson. Gordon will be CRAOCs driver and Tom has gone to 7 Ordnance Field Park. The five-a-side soccer team won a match and plans are afoot to win a small bore shooting trophy. The comments that the 'Estonian position' evoked will not be repeated. It's time to go, at least I can plead brevity to anyone not mentioned. Anyway, I'm off to play rugby. What's that? I'm only cough-ty seven, why not? 154 FORWARD AMMUNITION DEPOT WE bade a fond farewell to Captain Geoffrey Manson who has gone to Headquarters CVD UK, and welcome his replace- ment Captain John Boilers. Other postings out are Corporal Geordie Turner and family, Staff Sergeant Ken Blackwell and family and Sergeant Tony Hammond and family for Norwich who will now be known as PC Hammond! Our congratulations go to Sergeant Brian Maxwell on the birth of his son Tan James on the 12th September and also to Sergeant Stewart Veazey on the birth of his son on 15th September. Well done everyone! A 7 GUIDED MISSILE COMPANY THE month of September has seen many changes in the Unit, we have said farewell to our OC, Lieutenant Colonel Guy, who leaves the Unit lines on a suitable cloud. The Unit is now busily preparing for the disbandment parade to be held on Friday 30th September in Wulfen Station. At this parade a complete Thunderbird Missile will be presented to the Com- mander Wulfen Station for permanent display outside the Station Headquarters, The Unit took part in the 7th Artillery Disbandment Parade at Dortmund on 10th September and the event was described as a mini ' Sennelager Review.' The parade was followed in the afternoon by a Military Tattoo. Congratulations go to Staff Sergeant Mclloney and Corporal HaiTow on promotion and to WOI Sutton and W02 Stewart on being awarded the Queen's Silver Jubilee Medal. 1 (BR) CORPS VEHICLE COMPANY WE were joined at Recklinghausen recently by a party of Sappers led by Major Page from 507 STRE (V) who are busy installing a new rail spur within the Depot We hope that they will enjoy their short stay in BAOR. During the past week the quarters area has become peace- ful with the return of the boarding schoolchildren to Hamm for the start of their new term. Captain Brian Crawley, our ad- ministration officer designate, has arrived from the calm of Moenchengladbach to join us. We hope he and his family enjoy their stay. The Unit is looking forward to a visit by Brigadier Mac- donald the DDOS when he will open the new rail spur with Brigadier Dowdall, Commander 11 Engineer Brigade. We welcome Lance Corporal Gardiner from Moenchen- gladbach and say farewell to Sergeant Siggs on his posting to Moenchengladbach, Private Lomax to Ludgershall and Privates Cox and Wiltshire to civilian life. 1 British Corps A ORDNANCE BRANCH M^ IN August Captain John Cottington and family # m were involved in a motor accident in the corridor, ^K ^ L whilst returning from Berlin. All are now well ^^k^^L and fully recovered. ^ H | y^m We welcome Staff Sergeant Paul Rogers and his ^ f l ^m wife Jacquie to the Branch; and gratefully unlock ^^W the food cupboard again on saying farewell to ^w Staff Sergeant Ken (the smaller version) Hartley and wife Elsie, en route for Malta, we hope he doesn't pick up any more odd germs. The DDOS has a new book out on punctuation, called Clocking the Stop, favourable comma-nts so far! ADOS returned from leave looking rather pensive, and hasn't said very much since, I don't even think I should have mentioned it! Major Stuart RowseJl is in the UK on enforced leave again, trying to open a branch of Thieves Market in Oxford. Major John Regan, Major Brian Mills and Sherpa Fisk are also out there somewhere, unless of course they are still in France, following the Manchester United game! In fact, Major Brian Mills has just returned from Greece, having covered ap- proximately four thousand miles in three weeks motoring, however, whether this was due to a spirit of adventure, or was he chased from village to village by an irate population, is a matter for conjecture! Maggie the DDOS's Personal Assistant—named after the famous TV programme MAG-PA—is now fully recovered. 11 ORDNANCE FIELD PARK OUR main activity during last month has been Exercise Autumn . Climax, an 11 Armoured Brigade FTX which lasted in total the best part of two weeks. The first couple of days were spent •:' realistically on standby in camp ready for immediate deploy- ' ment. On arrival in our first location, a beech wood, the Unit quickly 7 shook out with the new members learning the * form. As usual our protection was primarily based on con- cealment. A raiding party of 1 PWO, acting as enemy, were lured into a well set trap and were captured by the reaction force led by the fearsome looking Sergeant Yates. Protection against FGA attack was provided by slit trenches—in solid limestone! The timely arrival of Captain Boulton RAAOC on Exercise Long Look enhanced our digging expertise. Australian accents and a multitude of jokes about * digging nearer to home,' ' assisted passage' and s looking for his mail' were in evidence throughout the exercise, The highlight of the first phase was a visit by the Brigade Commander, By this time we were in a village location making good use of our ' brick camouflage.' The Brigadier asked some very searching questions and the standby platoon, a fair cross section of the Unit, answered him well. Corporal Currie armed with a 66mm LAW and a toilet roll for Lance Corporal Szkoda rounded the corner and to his surprise confronted the inspecting party. He was directed by the Brigadier to engage an imaginary tank and after only a very brief pause to over- come his surprise proceeded to do so correctly. The * Golden Blanket' award was closely contested between Staff Sergeant Richardson and W02 Fagg. ' Q Fagg" has developed the trick of sleeping with a pen in his hand and one eye open, however on the evidence available, Staff Sergeant Richardson won the award. We welcome Captain Boulton RAAOC with us until December. Lieutenant Thompson is with us from Manchester University for a month whilst Second Lieutenant Stanfleld is in transit to Hamburg University where he will be studying for a year. We further welcome Sergeant Fogg, Corporal Guest, Privates Cook, Sheffield and Kirby. We say our farewells to Sergeant McDonald who has left us for the Outer Hebrides, Private Rowley to civvy street, Private Jones on detachment to UNFTCYP and Private Ellman, who is attending an AT course, we wish them all well. We would also like to con- gratulate Private Chegwidden on his recent marriage, negotiated as he tells us in a train corridor. 192 — |
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