RAOC Gazette - page 296
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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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The Station has entered a team in the Rhine Area Squash ' -ague, BAOR Minor Unit Squash Competition 1977/78 and o RAOC Inter Unit Squash Tournament 1977. So far we have ayed a friendly match versus 3 BAPD at Bracht Sadly due to i lining commitments only four players went but nevertheless wo played seven rounds and lost all. Later that evening after superb scoff and beverages we concluded that to have lost so was the best way to start a season! Only the future can now tell. Talking of the future we played our first league match on 10th October against 16 Signal Regiment at home and lost five nil (we are human you know!). The best match of the evening being fought between Horrobin and Desfontaines 7/9, 9/1, 7/9, 9/5, 9/10. The internal individual league has started again. Results will be notified next month, I {BR) CORPS VEHICLE COMPANY A FAIRLY quiet month for the Company, although we did lose Captain Auton and Captain Bridges and Privates Carroll, Curthoys and Shuck from the 8th until the 15th October on Exercise Autumn Sales. On the Uth October the rest of the Company was in- volved in a Disaster Plan in which the civilian Police, Fire and Ambulance services took part. The plan went off very well and improvements were made to the appearances of some of our'soldiers who acted as casualties. We say farewell to Private Dick Wells who has left us for ..udgershatl but welcome from Chilwell, Lance Corporal Bruce Watson and his family, Ordnance Services Berlin V THE past few months have been noteworthy for k turbulence, 1 Since July no less than twenty five per cent of our military strength have been posted and replaced, all I hasten to add as a result of routine postings! In addition to this turbulence, we, :ike all other Berlin Units, have been caught up in the general :renzy of preparations for the Berlin Tattoo, This has resulted in some strange demands being placed upon us, a minibus painted overall as a ' Flag Union/ no less than three kilometres of bunting and enough climbing rope to scale Everest! The Returned Stores Sub-Depot has been called upon to manufacture a Coronation Chair complete with The Stone, ShieLds for Roman Soldiers and Ancient Brits and miniature Kilts for schoolchildren taking part in the display of Irish and Scottish dancing. Ths unit's most noteworthy contribution to the Tattoo however, is the manning of the souvenir shop. Selected for this task were the OIC Barracks and the Local Procurement Officer. Both being long serving members of the * Quartermaster's Mafia,* known more politely in the Corps as ' Ordnance Executive Officers,' it was considered that their undoubted ability to sell ice cream to Eskimos well befitted them to sell diverse trinkets to the local population. Most welcome visitors to the Unit, in the week preceding the Tattoo, were Yeoman Warders ' Pop * Davis and Joe David; here as members of the cast ' Pop' being an ex RQMS of RAOC paid a visit to the Depot to meet old friends; one of them Conductor Almond hosted him for the remainder of the In Berlin For the Tattoo were Yeoman Warders Davis and David seen here with Lieutenant Colonel Fitzsimmons and Conductor Almond. day on a tour of Berlin. The tour included a visit to the English Pub in the Europa Centre, all in the line of Public Relations duty of course. The Ordnance/REME Football team started the season with mixed success but have gained a place in the semi-final round of the Viscountess Kemsley Cup competition with a fine win against 3 Squadron 13 Signal Regiment. The Sergeants Mess held a Regimental Dinner in July for all RAOC Warrant Officers and Sergeants in Berlin, all RAOC Officers in Berlin were also invited. It is hoped that this will be a regular annual RAOC Berlin event in the future. We bid farewell on posting to Major Wallace and Major Rhodes, Captain Mackay, Conductor Williams, SQMS Kearney, Staff Sergeants Chapman and Stoker, Corporal Furness WRAC and Lance Corporal Gavin. Privates Bastin and Booth WRAC have left for civilian life. We welcome Majors Washington, Shore and Thomas, SSM Neale, SQMS Bulmer, Staff Sergeants Proctor and Evans, Sergeant Ryder and Privates Naylor and Scarlett WRAC, Congratulations to Corporal Scanlon WRAC on promotion to that rank. In conclusion we wish all members of the Corps, and their families, a happy Christmas and prosperous 1978. 1st British Corps A M^ m^L ^f ^ ^ ^ K ^^k ^H^^F ^ H ^m ^ ^ ^ ^m THE Supervising Office welcomes Mrs Mac Mc- Gill as PA to the boss, Mrs Chris Godwin in the Reprographics and Lance Corporal Dee Owen who we pinched from G Training, Sergeant Wolfe searches the * mail-in' more diligently than ever before—something to do with RHE and Privates Michael Ford and John McCarton are to be con- gratulated on success at the promotion board. The new boss Captain Wally Auton arrives shortly and we wish him a happy tour here; it will certainly be eventful; to the retiring (to Sandhurst) old boss we bid fare- well and from all Staff Clerks past and present "Thanks for a job well done." The planning staff who organised Staff Sergeant Jack Rowleys farewell * d o ' obviously did so under strict security arrangements; hardly anybody knew about it before the event. A lot of people knew about it after the event if bleary eyes and aching heads are anything to go by. Chief Clerks AQ Operations and G Training vied with guitars and voices to amuse those who attended. General Stores Depot report that Lance Corporal K. C, Smith is glad to be back from Autumn Sales although suffering from a headache after being knocked on the head by an un- known object? Corporal Paul Gardiner is still telling us ail he can type after passing his Bl. In the aftermath of Exercise Autumn Sales, in addition to the normal Endex colds doing the rounds, a new soldier-affect- ing complaint reared its head in the bodies of Corporals Paul Gardiner and Scouse Hayes. This annoying, and as yet, un- identified ailment, causes the inflicted person the inability to sleep for more than fifteen hours at any one time. Lance Corporal Stevens, being the quick young Staff Clerk he is, instantly put it all down to a touch of 'The Golden Blanket,' and a reliable source was heard to say that Lance Corporal Stevens being an expert on * slumberology' was probably right! Other than the above minor worry, G Operations Staff had a very good exercise and are now all back in Bielefeld beavering away at the many varied but interesting tasks that come our way in the normal course of events. Staff Sergeant Paul Blaber is welcomed to relieve Staff Sergeant Jack Rowley as Chief Clerk G Operations/Training. Lance Corporal Dee Owen has left us—R and D have pinched her! G Branch came second in the Commanders Cup Summer Competition, being beaten by only half a point; in the final sport of the competition, Volley Ball, G Branch won with ease. Again G Air has completed another successful year of field deployments, the last being Exercise Autumn Sales. This proved to be the best but longest exercise of the year. Un- fortunately, it did not 4 run as planned and a few mishaps did occur. Lance Corporal Shuggie * Graham started off by putting the coffee kit ^Officers comforts, Junior ranks headaches) in the wrong vehicle much to the delight of an AAC driver. Corporal Paddy Moore came to the rescue and corrected the mistake much to the sorrow of the AAC. Corporal Moore was seen going to the first aid post and asking for Andrews Liver Salts on numerous occasions. It must have been the food. He and another RAOC soldier, — 225 — |
| Book number | R0246 |