RAOC Gazette - page 25
Image details
| Corps | RAOC |
|---|---|
| Material type | Journals |
| Book page | |
| Chapter head | |
| Chapter key | |
| Chapter number | |
| Full title | RAOC Gazette |
| Page number | |
| Publication date | 1981 |
| Real page | |
| Colour | No |
| Grey | No |
| Early date | 1981 |
| Late date | 1981 |
| Transcription |
W&t at tation JBtctos: onte Ministry of Defence MILITARY OPERATIONS HOW nice to see another article from the Whitehall end of the Ministry of Defence in the April edition of THE GAZETTE. Sergeant Harry Hay returned from Exercise Wintex and had to have two days off to recover, obviously he found it more tiring than he had previously anticipated, Staff Sergeant Chris Morris has still been spending a lot of time on vufoil preparation, it has been rumoured recently that he is thinking of changing his trade and becoming a draughtsman. We say farewell to Sergeant Dave Bellew this month and trust he enjoyed his first few months in the Corps. He has just moved to DSAS and we wish him all the best for the future. Our new arrival is Lance Corporal Lynne Grundie who joins us from Beaconsfield. Already she has proved to be an asset during a recent GS briefing she willingly took on the job of slide/vufoil operator. Also she has been seen with Corporal Pauline Cove jogging round St James's Park at lunchtime. It is nice to see an effort being made on the keep fit side of life. Corporal Helen Beavis is getting married later this month and we offer her and her intended our sincere congratulations and best wishes for the future. We are pleased to say that she is not leaving us, merely returning as Corporal Young. Headquarters Director General of Ordnance Services ORD 3. One of the highlights of the month wasr Brigadier Crawley's appointment as ADC to the Queen. Our most sincere congratulations go to him. The other highlight was when the QMG, General Sir Richard Worsley, presented our Chief Clerk, Staff Sergeant Howard Cutler, with the British Empire Medal for his outstanding services in Headquarters BAOR. An enjoy- able lunchtime was had by all at the Sergeants Mess on that day. What a month, it * rained T clerks, we now have our full entitlement of clerical assistance, the first time in over a year. We welcomed with open arms Mrs Enid Croft, Mrs Pam Jones and Miss Amy Cope and may their stay in Ord 3 be a long and happy one. On the sporting side, our S02 Coord Major ' Miles Miles' Ken Mullins put up a good show in the London Marathon and finished in a very good time for a ' veteran * of three and a half hours. Well done Ken, you can now exchange your running shoes for boots DMS, BFT season has started again. Sadly we say farewell to Mrs Audrey Pilcher, our stalwart Clerical Officer in Ord 3a, who has been with the branch since Headquarters Base Depots moved from Didcot to Andover. We would like to give her our best wishes, and hope she enjoys her new job as much, Directorate of Supply Management S MAN 1. Contrary to popular belief S Man 1 has not been disestablished! Our absence from THE GAZETTE has been due to the pressure of work caused by the Moratorium. Suffice to say that the mere mention of * Moratorium' had even our strongest officers foaming at the mouth at one stage. We take this belated opportunity to welcome back John Bentley from his long-awaited operation. To John we offer our congratulations on his selection for promotion to HEO, Also our congratulations go to Geoff Lampitt on his promotion to SEO and subsequent posting to Ord 3. Geoff was suitably wined out by the S Man 1 staff at a local hostelry and lunched out of the Mess by the Officers. We wish him well in his new appointment. His replacement is David Rae who joined us from Chilwell. On the Indian's front we have had movement too. Mrs Caroline McGlashan has left us to have a baby, Miss Becky Oldershaw has left us for OCT on promotion to Clerical Officer and Miss Pam Orr has transferred to DCT where her wealth of knowledge will be put to good use. Our new arrivals are Mrs Anne Bowman, Mrs Peggy Bray, Mrs Sue Falcon and Miss Lynn Martin to whom we bid welcome and hope they have an enjoyable time working in S Man I. We are now getting used to seeing our Chief Clerk on a regular basis. He hasn't been in hospital to sort out an old parachuting injury to his ankle for three months now! After being cut up so often he seems very cut up—(if you get our drifty^even his scars have scars! The Branch congregated in the LE(A) Sergeants Mess to witness the QMG presenting W02 Brookes with the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal. After the presentation the medal was well and truly christened and strangely enough * Q ' Brookes didn't return to work that day'. Incidentally, it is strongly denied that M the inscription on the u medal was for services to medical science ! STOP PRESS: Major Stan Sedman LI has finally received his posting order . . . . back to the land of the * Green Mafia * ! Never slow on the uptake he has been selling copies of his posting order as an example of " Jim'll Fix i t " I His new unit (5 LI) should benefit enormously by Stan's period in S Man I during which he has learned just how to beat clerical bans, ration bans, the Standard Priority System—in short all our secret ways of defeating Quartermasters attempts to clean out the RAOC storesheds into their own, although as a favour he has promised to keep all this to himself in recognition of his happy days with us. S MAN 2. Until quite recently there have been very few comings and goings in S Man 2—hence the absence of any notes. However, during the last month or so we have seen numerous new faces about the place. We welcome Major Doug Stobie who took over from Major Frank Falle who had gone to sort out all the problems in MOD in six months prior to his BAOR posting! We also welcome Major Leslie Jordan who took over from Captain Ron Wilkinson on his posting to BAOR. Both Major Stobie and Major Jordan joined us from sunny Cyprus. We wish Major Falle and Captain Wilkinson well in their new appointments. The next new face to appear was Major Mike Turner who is transferring from the Royal Anglian Regiment. We welcome Major Turner not only to Andover but to the Corps and hope that his tour will be a pleasant one. Major Turner took over from Major Davy Hudson who went to 1 (BR) Corps on pro- motion—our congratulations and best wishes in his new post Another newcomer was Captain Mark Frazer who joined us from BAOR to relieve Major Derek Glarvey RTR. We wel- come Captain Frazer and wish Major Glarvey all the best on his retirement after a long and distinguished career. The last new face to welcome was Mrs Mavis Pol glaze who although new to Andover, joined us from our own cell (S Man 2a(3)) in Bicester, Mavis took over from Peggy Bray in the Registry/Co-ord section and Peggy has moved on to learn all about the intricacies of weapons in S Man 1. The DSM(A) five-a-side football team—drawn from stars of both S Man 1 and S Man 2 has played remarkably well all through the season and finished second (from the bottom!) It did however manage to get a few of the otherwise desk bound chaps out kicking the ball around which they all enjoyed very much. WOl Phillips has just completed a three week Management course at the School of Ordnance and now professes to know all the theories behind good management! On a more sombre note we are at present without Mr Bernard Clarke who had a rather rough time with appendicitis—we wish him a speedy recovery and hope he will be back with us shortly. |
| Book number | R0250 |