RAOC Gazette - page 54
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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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193G A N D A L L , T H A T iTH city marathons now the vogue, a mini marathon run was M recently in Berlin. This had star billing and roads along L» route, such as the famous Kurfuerstendamm were closed to lil'tc during the event. The run ended at the Olympic Stadium, e venue for the 1936 Olympic Games, There were three thousand three hundred competitors in- jding renowned civilian marathon runners from the United ingdom. The RAOC was well represented with nine military inners and members of two RAOC families. The race was won by a Turkish runner in one hour eighteen mutes. The first RAOC member to finish was Staff Sergeant ave Beadsworth, a Staff Clerk in Headquarters Berlin Infantry rigade, in one hour thirty five minutes. Staff Sergeant Beads- orth was a member of the successful Berlin Garrison Adrnini- rative Unit team which won the Berlin Minor Units Cham- lonship in 1980 but this is the first time that he had run a i/enty five kilometre distance. The British female greyhound Mrs Jeanette Kilgour, wife f W 2 Keith Kilgour of Ordnance Services, followed her jeeesses in the twelve and a half kilometre and eighteen kilo- tetre trial runs by coming in a few minutes after W 2 Beads- orlh. She was the fourth lady to finish and was presented with plaque and commemorative plate. Two further RAOC runners completed the course in under *o hours-Staff Sergeant Ken Bartlett of RSSD and Staff ergeant Harry Miller of the Supply Depot. HISTORY A T H O M E THE National Army Museum will be ' a t home 1 to the family on Saturday 25th July. A special attraction will be a display of the drill and tactics of the English Civil War by Colonel Nicholas Devereux's Regiment of Foot. This will take place at 2.30 on the South Grounds, the Royal Hospital, next to the museum. The display covers pike and musket drill, cannon- firing and methods of recruiting and punishment. The presenta- tion is by an experienced regiment of the Roundhead Associa- tion. In the National Army Museum, from 10 am to 4 pm, there will be instruction and displays of plastic modelling by the British Model Soldier Society; war gaming clubs will fight table-top battles ranging from medieval to modern warfare; and talks on. three hundred years of weapons will be accompanied by demon- strations and opportunities to handle several of the arms of the Army. The events are free and are suitable for all the family. The purpose of the open day is to show the activities avail- able during our three week special programme of activities for seven to seventeen year olds. This will run on weekdays from 27th July to 13th August (excluding Wednesday 29th July when the museum will be closed). A full programme of the talks, films (including major commercial feature films), modelling sessions, war games, gallery trails and quiz sheets are available, Requests for the programme should be sent with a stamped addressed envelope to Summer Events, Education Department, National Army Museum, Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, Lon- don SW3 4HT. Tel.: 01-730 0717. THE CORPS AND THE GUNNERS SHARE THE HONOURS THE tug-of-war team from Second Armoured Division Ord- nance Company, with their trainer and coach, Major Bob Reid (kneeling) get ready to pull during the final of the six. hundred and forty kilo contest of the Second Armoured Division tug-of- war championships held at Biinde. Major Page and his ten year old daughter Cheryl on the last lap >f the twenty five kilometre semi-marathon run at the Olympic Stadium, Berlin. Other RAOC personnel to complete the run in creditable times, and well within the three and a half hour deadline were, W 2 Pete Bedford of ASB, Staff Sergeants Dave Kilnan and John Claughton from Headquarters Berlin Infantry Brigade and Staff Sergeant Alan Cowlishaw, Sergeant Tom Lynch and Major Brian Page from Ordnance Services. Major Page ran the twenty five kilometre course with his ten year old daughter Cheryl in iwo hours thirty five minutes and Cheryl was presented with a plaque and plate for finishing sixth in the sixteen years and under group. ALL AT S E A THE S 2 (S Man) at South West District Major Bob Bracken and his wife Diana, took part in the Royal Ocean Racing Club Cervantes Cross Channel Yacht Race recently—in all a distance of one hundred and eighty five miles. The race started from the Solent The course took them to Exmouth and then across the Channel through high seas and force eight winds to Cherbourg. The forty two foot yacht ' Tai-Luk * owned and skippered by one of our ex-Corps Officers, Captain Robert Frankcom, who many will remember, came first in its class. A great achievement as many of the yachts participating were Admirals' Cup standard. Take the strain. Our team were the champions in the five hundred and sixty kilo contest when they beat 47 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery in the final by two straight pulls. However the Gunner team got their revenge when they beat us in the six hundred and forty kilo contest by the same margin of two straight pulls. A total of eleven units from the Division took part in the Championships. C O R P S CENTENARIAN READERS will recall that, in the February GAZETTE, we recorded the one hundredth birthday of Ex-Conductor Richard Kirby, our oldest member, who enlisted in 1899, and retired in 1926, long before the majority of our readers were born! 39 — |
| Book number | R0250 |