RAOC Gazette - page 117
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| Publication date | 1981 |
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| Early date | 1981 |
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(Motley crew!) were close runners-up in the inter unit sailing competition. The Bicester Officers Mess won the Base Depot Inter Officers Mess Cricket Competition thanks mainly to DSCS who fielded eight out of the eleven players. Despite the efforts of Captain Roger Atkey (five dropped catches). Major Richard Shore and Major John Elphinston RAAOC, forgot the Ashes and combined forces to a devastating bowling display. Credit for the organisation must go to another DSCS member Lieu- tenant Colonel David Evans. Recent arrivals here included Colonel David Man from SHAPE, Lieutenant Colonel David Humphrey from Hong Kong, Lieutenant Colonel David Evans from COD Bicester (David would appear to be a fairly common christian name!). Major John Neville from BAOR, Captain Pauline Woods WRAC from Northern Ireland and W02 Mike Townend RCT. We say farewell to Colonel Bob Herdman, Captain Harry O'Hare (School of Ammunition) and Captain Tom Briggs (ICP Viersen). Training Centre SCHOOL OF ORDNANCE -rTfr";^X^"—Th-i THERE have been a few unfortunate - ^ • * - ^ZZ accidents at the School recently. Mr ^*-^ ^ ^. Jack Worthington has returned to work ^ *,*»•% ^ after suffering a heart attack. He has lost L ^—si-——-M one and a half stones and consequently |L A- I looks extremely fit. He suffered the attack the day that Major Ray Turner joined him in the Health and Safety Branch, but Ray does not hold it against him. Lieutenant Colonel Peter Goodwin (Retd) has also recently suffered the same fate and is now recovering quickly in Reading Hospital. He plans to return to the School at the beginning of August in time for the August break. His misfortune benefits others because the road between Pangbourne and Deepcut is now a safe place for other commuters. Mrs Paddy Clark, whilst driving to work, had an un- fortunate meeting with the Commandants staff car. Luckily the Colonel was not a passenger in his car at the time. Paddy is now driving a somewhat modified Princess and is forced to climb in and out through the passenger door. Major Ray Ansel is the new RAOC golf champion. He won the Spring Meeting held at Blackmoor and would like it known that he won the tournament off scratch but we didn't even know he had an infection. Major Frank Warren has been representing the Corps (not only because he is the Corps Golf Secretary) and has actually beaten someone in the Pay Corps. In fact Frank has been educating the Civil Service in Inventory Management to enable them to inspect various establishments. With one Senior Principal and two SEOs on the course Frank admitted having difficulty keeping up with them. Major Malcolm Bryant, the Team Manager of the Army Athletics Team, has been announcer at all the recent athletics meetings. This is partly due to his position of Team Manager and partly due to the fact that the public address system in the Aldershot stadium has broken down. Sergeant Mick Binks came third in the Army fifteen hundred metres although he hasn't broken the magical four minute barrier yet. The I of E team has been fought ofT for another few years. It is. rumoured that only two posts have been threatened, one being the Management Branch and the other being the Logistics Branch. The School Mess has featured in the news recently. We have had a very successful Dinner Night with the Common- wealth and Foreign Officers Course and an equally successful June Lunch. Luckily for the PMC, Mr Vice and the Band it was decided that some fifteen national anthems would be too much after dinner, hence the UN Hymn * Ode to Joy * was played instead. The request by Lieutenant Colonel Ian Bradley that the CFOOs should sing was declined! The June Lunch with Pimms on the lawn followed by a Frank Batchelor ' special * was also extremely well received, the weather again being very kind to us on the day. We say farewell to Major Stephen Roberts, Corporal Phil Longland and Mrs Joan Lungley. Stephen Roberts has taken his slide library to SOEST where he hopes to exchange it for an Ordnance Company. Phil Longland has gone to pester the Army Air Corps again at Wallop and Joan Lungley has moved on promotion all the way to the Apprentices College. We welcome Major Tom Cowan from Dulmen and Corporal Ian Gray from Bracht. I would be surprised if Major Ray Ansel is the RAOC Champion next year—scratch or no scratch! EMPLOYMENT TRAINING SCHOOL l VEHICLE SPEC IA LIST BRANCH. W02 Whippet * McNaught once again lead the Vehicle Specialists on the BFT, with Sergeant Bob Law in the middle holding up the opposition and Sergeant Geoff Williams bringing up the rear to make sure no one dropped out. Needless to say all passed. BFT is not a problem Q s v SHORT 1 runs are. lb Hurry up Sandy, Bob and Geoff." The guest appearance of W 2 Bill Heap in the class rooms still occur. PRINTER BRANCH. At the end of May the Printing Branch said farewell to their leader WOl Cliff Poison on his way to a life on Bondi Beach, we wish Cliff, Pat and family a sunny future. We welcome Cliff's replacement WOl Brian Longridge and his family on arrival from Donnington whose first problem is to find us some more potential printers. Sergeant Len Salisbury, No. I in the Headquarters Sergeants Mess snooker scheme is hoping to repeat last years successful celebrity snooker evening by booking Steve Davies for the 1st October in the Tela Theatre. He has also been involved in snooker tours of BAOR and Gibraltar while at the same time holding weekly teach-ins for dependants. ADVANCED CLERKS BRANCH. W02 Ron McCaffrey is again on his annual pilgrimage to Greenham Common where he is the Quartermaster for the RAF International Air Tattoo 1981 which is held there. He tells us it is part of his Resettle- ment Course! SUPPLY SPECIALISTS BRANCH. Some changes in the Branch have been made this month. Sergeant ' Gon2o T Bee has left to take up the post of Provost Sergeant and was last seen and heard sliding down the camp hill in his highly studded and highly polished 'Gravel Crunchers'—Look out Recruits! APPRENTICES COLLEGE HEADQUARTERS COMPANY has settled down again after the College Summer Camp at Penally. The camp proved to be a great success but the activities were hampered by the poor weather. Credit to Sergeant Bill (Little Willy) Gibson and Corporal Steve Jenkins who both managed to keep smiling whilst they were under canvas and coping with knee-deep mud. Their contribution to the three day exercise in the Prescilly Hills was tremendous. Our stand-in Training Officer, Captain Phil Freegard (Fire- guard), managed to cope extremely well at Summer Camp. The only thing he needs to learn now is how to play volley ball. Captain Freegard was standing in for Captain Ted Walcroft, since promoted and posted to the land of LOA. We wish him and his family all the best in BAOR. Our congratulations to Corporal and Mrs Nan Langton on the birth of their son James, the first of many no doubt. We welcome Captain John Inman, our new College Train- ing Officer, who has joined us from Viersen; Corporal Dick Rainey into our training wing and Lance Corporals Jock van Nuil and Norman Pilkington. Sadly we say farewell to Sergeant Trevor Watson and Corporal Steve Jenkins who have not only left Headquarters Company, but deserted to our enemies in 4 A* Company. Good luck lads with the recruits. 'A' COMPANY. With the departure of last term's Arnhem and Ardennes Platoons and Alamein away on trade training the Com- pany office should have taken on a quieter air, this was not to be with the return of Sergeant Gatley and the drill practise of Sergeant Bradley (preparing for the artificer's course). The summer sports and EMAs are quickly into gear, all we need now is some good weather, On the sporting scene the first activity was the Bari Cup where Captain Eccles, Lieutenant Goldie, Apprentices Walker and Tyrrell represented the Company achieving good results reaching the quarter finals. The next event was the Bruce Seven's Cup where Sergeant Tarr and Lieutenant Goldie turned out excellent results. While we are on rugby it should be noted that Sergeant Tarr was presented with his Combined Services colours. In preparation for the Inter-Company Athletics an athletics standards competition was held. Each apprentice had to at- tempt each of the eight events. Even the bad weather could not dampen the enthusiasm of the participants and good results were achieved. Corporal Purcell won the competition with nineteen points with James, W. Martin and Pearson a close second. The Company were heavily involved in the Training Centre athletics at Bracknell. In a two part competition; Inter Ap- prentice Company and a three-way competition between Train- |
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