RAOC Gazette - page 30
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| Corps | RAOC |
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| Full title | RAOC Gazette |
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| Publication date | 1981 |
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| Early date | 1981 |
| Late date | 1981 |
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Privates Greene and Bartzch completed the course one hundred .id twenty five miles on the Sunday evening, close to collapse :•> their famous y bathtub, 1 which half of Wiltshire, Berkshire, Hertfordshire, Surrey, Middlesex and Greater London had come- to hear about from the foghorn-like protests of Private Greene. Joking apart, both he and Bartzch can be justly proud of what they achieved, as can all the other participants, and, of course, the ever-faithful back-up teams. Sergeant Crawford and Private Johnson finished on the Monday morning afler just failing to meet the Sunday evening tide, and there ended the experience of a lifetime—untiL next year! We welcome Privates Swain and Harbron and Second lieutenant Martin Hardy from Sandhurst. Congratulations to Lance Corporal Gary Moore and Corporal Pete Baker on their Bi and to Private Jimmy Greaves on his marriage to Carol. Best wishes to them both. r Central Ordnance Depot Donnington WE were very pleased to start the month with a visit from the Director General and Mrs Brown. After preliminary briefings General Brown had a whistle-stop tour of the depot and we were especially pleased to be able to show him our new Central Processing Building (Building B5) which has just seen the light of day. Western District* " . • 1 EVENTS this month were overshadowed. C I JZ3 — ' I — by the sudden death of Mr Bill Mann, ASA at Kineton. He was a very con- scientious and popular man who will be sorely missed- We extend our deepest sympathies to his wife Elsie, and her children. An obituary appears elsewhere in this journal. We are happy to report that Lieu- tenant Colonel Tony Beaumont the CRAOC has almost com- pletely recovered from his illness and by the time you read this should be back in harness. The S02 C Sups, Major Stuart Craven recently ran Exercise Southern Comfort for 52 Company near Blackdown. A gruelling forty eight hours of road movement, convoy drills, ambush drills and fieldcraft put the unit through its paces. A realistic enemy •»vas provided by Major Mike Pether and 41 RP Company. It proved a worthwhile exercise in which many valuable lessons were learnt, Last month Regional Depot Hereford was visited by the Branch Line Society, a group of railway enthusiasts. They spent an enjoyable morning looking over the Depot's internal rail- way system and afterwards handed the OC Major Bruce Boulton a cheque for £60 for the Army Benevolent Fund. The Army Fire Brigade at Donnington did well in the E980 UK. Army Fire Brigades competition. In the breathing apparatus competition AFB Donnington were awarded first place with a time of 24.4 seconds, seventeen seconds ahead of their nearest rival In the Jack Broadhurst Trophy one man hydrant drill competition Fireman J. Perry of Donnington came second. We were sorry to lose our POL clerk Mrs Joyce Stubbs this month to the Recruiting and Liaison Staff but welcome in her place Mr Tom Morgan. Lieutenant Colonel Major explaining a function of the Central Processing Building to the DCOS. Looking on are Brigadier Barratt and Colonel Parker. Behind the scenes, in Regimental Wing people have been beavering away at forthcoming events such as the Donnington raft race, the St Barbara's Day Parade and various shadow platoon exercises. We were pleased to see the return of Lieutenant Iain Cassidy, back from Norway, He has been joined this month by Second Lieutenant John Bednall who is quickly learning the mystical art of being a training officer. He takes the place of Lieutenant Colin Nisbet who has left for civilian life. On the sports field the unit has met with mixed success, In the Hill Cup semi-final the rugby team ran out seventeen nil losers to Blackdown in a very exciting match. Since then they have played two other matches, winning convincingly thirty nil and twenty two nil against 29 Regiment RCT and 52 Company RAOC (V) respectively. The soccer team have played but they are keeping very quiet about it. Very soon all the sports pitches will come down to make way for athletic tracks and cricket pitches but with snow lying thick on the Wrekin I think it is a little too soon to welcome the halcyon days of summer. Finally we all extend warm congratulations to Sergeant Martin on his promotion. Welcome RQMS Donnery back from Zimbabwe and Private Cooper into the Orderly Room. We say farewell to the Sergeants Gill who are off to BAOR. Central Ordnance Depot Chilwell The W R A C Donnington Hockey T e a m . Back row: Second lieutenant O'Hara, Lance Corporal C, Wilson, Lance Corporal L. Wilson, Corporal McDonald, Lance Corporal Mc Naught, Corporal Brooks and Private Molyneux. Front row: Corporal Rodgers, Private Williams, Private Parket, W O l Mapley, Corporal Smith and Private ReiHy. DESPITE the emphasis in this month's notes being on sport, readers can be assured that the outloading programme continues on schedule towards the closure of the Depot in April next year The OC ensured a variety in military training by organising a 'Super Stars' com- ix *$i ff II petiti 00 * T ^ e prizewinners were Private >\ W Jl Martin, CSM Gumbs and Private Brown in tne ^k^s=3<t^5#^ individual event with the Sergeants ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Mess Team of the CSM, Staff Sergeant m00 ^* ^ Brooks RAPC, and Sergeant Berrill win- ning the team event followed by A Sub-Depot. Following shortly after this was an inter-Departmental road relay race, and the winning team here was A Sub-Depot with Staff Sergeant Keppie and Privates Bradley, Brown and Jackson with the CAO Team of Staff Sergeant Johnstone, Lance Corporal Mitchell and Privates Martin and Stotan in second place. Last month we mentioned Private Stotan winning the award of best RAOC novice in the Army Ski Association Cham- |
| Book number | R0250 |