RAOC Gazette - page 293
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| Publication date | 1977 |
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| Early date | 1977 |
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being Lance Corporal Gatley who is slightly faster than most people, Forthcoming interesting marches are the AFCENT Queens Silver Jubilee March and the 'Three Countries,' which are France, Germany and Belgium, during December and January. The Unit is amalgamating for social marches with the Rhein- dahlen Allied Marchers (RAMS) and the single element are showing keen interest. ^Perhaps the WRAF have something to do with this t A welcome back to Major Dai Jones after a spell in hospital. He made an amazing recovery and the number of visitors he had must warrant an entry into the Guinness Book of Records! Finally, farewell to W02 Thomas, Sergeant Coomber ACC, Private Donaldson, Corporal Ryder and Private Cronshaw. Congratulations to SSM Henwood and Staff Sergeant Mc- Naught, Sergeant Sorrenson and Lance Corporal Young on their respective promotions. A warm VSD welcome to Privates Rose, Judge and Mc- Intyre* Stork News: Congratulations to Lance Corporal and Mrs Gillolt on the birth of a girl, Sarah Louise and to Private and Mrs Cowell on the birth of a boy, Stuart Alan. Marriages: Congratulations to Private Lambert on his marriage to Miss Karen Longbottom and to Private Littlejohn on his marriage to Miss Lorraine Towler. Stop Press: Order your GAZETTE now—next month features "The Great Race!". The Bracht golfing fraternity continue to enjoy at least some success, even after ' duffing * the Summer league, SSM Pete Emerton, now playing off thirteen, managed to 'acquire' two prizes in the Rhine Area Autumn Meeting and was also runner- up in the Club Corinthian Trophy. Sergeant Bryan Dawson and Corporal Alex Livingstone were both successful in Monthly Medals at Bruggen and now play off eleven and eighteen respectively. The Bracht Barbarians started off their defence of the Double Diamond Cup with a resounding twenty four to ten win over Dusseldorf Dragons. The Unit also won their first round game in the Army (BAOR) Major Units Cup, versus 21 Signal Regiment, by seventy six points to nil. In the RAOC (BAOR) versus RAF(G) match held at Bracht, 3 BAPD provided no less than twelve players in the winning team, Congratulations to Corporal and Mrs Spencer on the birth of their son, also to the following on their promotions: RSM Clarke and W02 Richardson (Acting), SSM Emerton, W02 Cosway, Staff Sergeants Gregory and VVase, Lance Corporals Dawes and Little, all substantive. Arrivals-. RSM Clarke, W02 Cosway, Staff Sergeant Gott, Corporals Bradshaw, King, Lawrence, Lumb, McShane, Morris, Spink and Turner, Lance Corporals Anderson, Brown (ACQ and Mayers and Private Bargrove. Departures: W02 Barker, Staff Sergeant McCarrick, Corporals Blakeley, Coull, Dawson, Pullen and Snell, Lance Corporals Trayford and Whitehill (ACC) and Private Mallett. 3 Base Ammunition and Petroleum Depot 3 BAPD have again hosted three high-ranking officers this month. The visitors were the Chief of Staff Northag, Major General K. von der Osten; The Engineer in Chief, Major General C. P. Campbell and the Commander Rhine Area, Brigadier J. G Moore. The first shoot of the season took place in the Am- munition Depot during October. The guests consisted of local landowners and dignitaries. Major Reggie von Zugbach de Sugg was elected to the Local Hunters' Brotherhood and claims not to remember much of the evening that followed. The Unit was aware that something was on however, for hunting horns were heard to echo from the Officers Mess Annex with increasing frequency as the evening progressed. The sessions of Continuation Training have been enjoyed by (nearly) everyone 4i who attended. Staff Sergeant Mick Ban was heard to utter Pause, two three '* in between coughs and splutters on leaving the gas chamber. Congratulations are due to the Training Wing for an interesting course. The Unit now boasts a new RSM. Mrs Anne Boughen, the Unit hairdresser, has been kept busy ever since! RSM Clarke also plays rugby and got his first black eye within three days of taking over his appointment—playing rugby of course! BFT—these initials conjure up all sorts of ideas, the latest being Bracht Fitness Tyrant, by which name SI Kenny Finch APTC, is currently known. Early morning PT sessions are now in full swing for those few members of the Unit who have not yet passed their BFT, and there are not many of those! Interest- ing to note is that several over thirty fives have put up faster times than anyone in the thirty to thirty five age group. ' Super- fast* W02 Andy Shearer is the current over thirty five leader with nine minutes nineteen seconds. The football season is with us once again and Bracht are out to win the North Rhine Inter Services League in which they came a close second last season. This season's team is Corporal John McGonagle (Captain), Major Roger Attrill, W02 Andy Shearer, W02 Digger Denholm, Sergeant Kenny Finch (APTC), Corporals Thomo Thompson and Sammy Sansom, Lance Corporals Kev Willis, Andy Anderson, Ricky Crombie and Scouse Norbury, Privates Ian Crawford, Smudge Smith and 1 Pop* McAleese. The team is under the new management of Sergeant John Nolan assisted by trainer W02 Jimmy Richard- son and Corporal Jack (Subs) Ince. After a disasterous start to the season, losing four to one to 21 Signal Regiment in the league, the team came back with a four to two win against 23 Regiment RCT. To date our last league match was against Command Pay Office Moenchengladbach which resulted in a comfortable four to one win for Bracht. In the Army Challenge cup we were extremely unlucky to have a last second equalising goal disallowed and went down two to one to 16 Signal Regi- ment. It would appear that the fencing club have been 'foiled' by NAAFI. A recent order for seven right-handed foil gloves has been met by a delivery of seven left-handed sabre gloves. Major Reggie von Zugbach de Sugg is now trying to recruit as many left-handers into the club as possible!. Wulfen Station ^jV j /^BSR\ JHr^^^jBtkX FOR anyone on leave and indeed those who could not partake in the two weeks exercise in October for various doubtful ^ ^ W B K ^ M I reasons, they missed what one would ^^^/"•^P^Hl generally class as the midnight hour of ^'^jlBflHk the party! Samples of opinion seem to ^•Hrani run from Get K to Super!, but quite /^m^Swfwifr frankly it was a very fruitful two weeks ^^fflfluMR and we all learned something. (Ask the ^PpHpM^ Station Chief Clerk, Monsieur Jacques, ' W about map reading and marching! and you will no doubt get his very personal opinion!), The team two day event was won by Team No, 4 led by the intrepid Sergeant Stew Veazey and comprising of Corporal Rod Godwin, Lance Corporals Mai Short and Steve Geary and Privates Trev Horn and John Reidy. Other team leaders were Team No. 1 W02 Jacques Desfontaines, Team No. 2 Staff Sergeant Dave Wood, Team No. 3 Staff Sergeant Bob Monday, Team No. 5 Sergeant Dave Collins and Team No. 6 Sergeant Bob Berry, The Wulfen air is of course well known to be the purest in Nord Rhein Westfalen and our morning runs/physical exercises on Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings are always greeted enthusiastically, so much that by popular request, we may add an extra session on Sundays and that's got nothing to do with ' Brownie points * which Sergeant Peter Lee keeps talking about I actually remember Corporal Peter Lynch telling me—before collapsing—how much he enjoyed this Germanic pastime. The rugby squad is now under new management of Captain Paul Henwood, for shape and style, and * Dusty' (Fitness him- self) Stone. After a shaky start, results are beginning to im- prove as they work towards the first round of the Army Minor Units Cup. Unfortunately, the strength of the squad is being slowly sapped by the disbandment of 7 Guided Missile Com- pany. We wish them all luck as they leave for new rugby pastures around the globe. The Wulfen Gun Club (Skeet and Trap) continues to thrive. We have just held a very successful Open Competition Shoot and we are pleased to say that the Wulfen A Team managed to take second prize in the Team Competition. The Ladies Hockey Team, the Wulfen Royalls, played a six-a-side competition against the ladies of Portsmouth Barracks Munster; they had a splendid day and actually won one of their five games! They also played against the schoolgirls of Hamm and lost by twelve to nil. I am told it was a case of age before beauty! The men's team played against Ordnance Depot Antwerp on a fine sunny afternoon and the result was not a reflection of the elements generosity! Desfontaines forgot the game was a team effort and Noddy Nagle held the stick firmly by the butt and requested Ammo! Actually, we tried very hard and must congratulate Antwerp for a fine performance. Result?—sorry, classified! — 224 — |
| Book number | R0246 |