RAOC Gazette - page 253
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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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with fifty one. Corporal Geordie Bradley forty two and Staff Sergeant Ron Bridgmount with a lightning twenty eight to add to his four for fifteen to take the man of the match award. We progressed to the BAOR* Minor Units semi-final only to fall to 7 Field Workshop by seven wickets. Bridgmount with forty one and Captain Jack Eldridge thirty, could be con- sidered unlucky. The last match of the season was the DOS Cup Final. We were fortunate to provide six members of the winning 2 Division side, Bradley again was top scorer with forty. Sergeant Dick Baker thirty five, Major Gary Smith thirty and Captain Alan Butterworth twenty five, helped the 2 Division side to one hundred and seventy two for eight in their thirty five overs, RAOC Rheindahlen made a great fight of it only to run out of overs still requiring eight runs. Lance Corporal Geordie Simmons two for fourteen in seven overs and Sergeant Barry Brooks three for thirty two helped make it difficult. What a day. Our sailors not to be outdone, have spent a very hard ten days sailing around Denmark. One poor lad even had to buy a pair of sunglasses. The party of Lieutenant Alex Sturdy, Second Lieutenant David Higton-Jones, Corporal Geordie Barnes, Lance Corporal Paddy Doran and Private John Elliott all returned with tall stories looking remarkably fit and totally broke. The opening of the football season has started with, a 5-1 defeat followed by the rugby team going down 16-8. Perhaps it's our diet!! Since our last report a large turnover in personnel has taken place, lots of lads have married and families added to. Rather than print a list we will highlight a department every month showing all the intricate skills that are hidden behind routine, bring our personalities to the fore and let you know how the Unit works. Quite a lot of us are interested in the last point! • stalwarts were eloquently unveiled by Captain Jim Morgan snowed a considerable amount of disbelief. Well, it only go^ to prove you can fool some of the people for eighteen years at least. 1 suppose the football team will be wondering if they are going to get a mention—of course they are. A 5-0 win over the local British Military Hospital team is the best score in living memory. The Officer Commanding walked away look- ing slightly bemused—but later denied he had been cheering the others; force of habit to cheer the losing side I suppose! On the sporting side the month has been fairly full. Our Marchers have been in a variety of events, ranging from the one hundred kilometre race at Unna where l Lance Corporal Pete Learmonth, Private Steve Kiernan and Q * Lex Mootoo got gold medals for completing the one hundred kilometres in 12 hours 05 minutes, 22 hours 02.45 minutes and 22 hours 10 minutes respectively. Congratulations on an outstanding effort. Silver medals for completing seventy five kilometres plus were won by Corporal Mick T Cutbush, Lance Corporal * Ben' Gunn and Private * Jock McKirdy who came over all unnecessary after eighty six kilometres and in fact spent a week in hospital while they sorted out the frayed bits at the end of his legs. Apart from lots of medals won for the odd quick twenty kilometres, the other main achievement was our teams being placed first And second in the military section of the ten kilometres Volkslauf at Hasberger. Our few pursuers of the oval ball have joined forces with SSM Dulmen as they are too few to field their own team. In the .first game the number was further depleted when Lance Corporal Alan Ashcroft fooled the defence with a brilliant side step that baffled the spectators and also made his eyes water when he found his kneecap was halfway up his thigh t Still, he's out of hospital now and working long hours for the CSM who hides Alan's crutches until knocking off time! As the OIC Administration has come out of retirement once again to have a go there had better not be any cracks about it being a game for cripples and geriatrics! Finally, to bring our who's been and gone part up to date, we say sad farewells to Corporal Bill Holmes, Private 'Brummy* Lake on posting and Scouse Moore who has gone to swell the ranks of the unemployed! We welcome; back from sunnier climes Corporal Dave Gould (Cyprus) and Lance Corporal Jim Eccleson (Belize); and to the Unit on posting in Lance Corporal Graeme McDonald, Private Tom Hawken, Staff Sergeant Benny Gorbould, Lance Corporal John Pensom, Staff Sergeant John Keefe and Corporal Tom Stevenson. PS: Has the fact that they are running the Unit Christmas draw got anything to do with the fact that the CQMS, Staff Sergeant Roger Bowden and his accomplice Corporal Mick Higham both recently took delivery of new Fiats? 5 Field Force Ordnance Company ITS difficult to know what to start with this month, so many events demanding pride of place! However, as usual we will be gentlemen and give the girls the privilege of being first. M a n y , many congratulations to Mrs Jennifer Bolden and Mrs Linda Morgan on the birth of their daughters Loretta Chantal and Charlotte Elizabeth on the 17th and 21st of September respec- tively. Both mothers and daughters are doing well. I suppose we had also better mention the dads, Staff Sergeant Wes Bolden and Captain Jim Morgan, though perhaps the December 1976 notes would have been a better place, Brigadier Pascoe, Commander of 5 Field Force, came to present the Long Service and Good Conduct Medals to W02 Dennis Falcus and Lieutenant Ian Quarrier. The ' Oohs' and *Ahs ' from the assembled Company as the careers of these two 4 Division HEADQUARTERS THE month of September saw us de- ployed once again on a CRAOC exercise, on which we were the control element chasing 6 and 20 OFPs across the North German Plain near Osnabruck. It was a great success with Sergeant Attwood using his considerable ability as a German speaker on two Portuguese MSO labourers working in the kitchen, Misunderstandings were remarkably few and far between, but one suspects more by luck than by judgement. Private Broadbent, who has just passed his driving test, spent the exercise driving the Adjutant up and down various little tracks and gullies in his eternal search to find something more difficult for the Ordnance Field Parks to do. Major York, our new DADOS (C Supplies), is now com- fortably installed with his wife and three children. We have also said hello to two new arrivals in Lorraine and Claire Marie, the daughters of Sergeant and Mrs Hall and Private and Mrs Bates respectively. 6 ORDNANCE FIELD PARK THE Unit submitted teams for the Soest NATO Cup Shoot, organised by the Germans on the Belgian ranges at Btiecke, in which we came seventh; also for the Wahnerheide twenty five kilometre march near Cologne, organised by the 6th Engineer Battalion of the Belgian Army, for which we received a very smart silver plate. The middle of the month was taken up by Exercise Final Fling, CRAOC 4 Division's last exercise with 6 Ordnance Field Park before restructuring, when we Brigadier Pascoe congratulates W 2 Falcus. Lieutenant Quarrier finds it all faintly amusing. — 194 — |
| Book number | R0246 |