RAOC Gazette - page 135
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| Corps | RAOC |
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| Material type | Journals |
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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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Sergeant Maggie Devlin has now joined the proud ranks of '*•' car owners. Now ail she needs is a licence to be able to drive it SQMS Barry Sievens has after much effort, passed his BFT. He claims no drugs or artificial aids were used and no Ly money changed hands, It was just plain sweat " he said. SSM Barry Erskine and Staff Sergeant Cass Clayton pay a courtesy visit to ICP occasionally between shooting practices prior to their Bisley trip. With all this leave and sport going on Captain Tom Brigg& our new arrival must wonder what sort of a place he has come to. Forward Ordnance Depot Dulmen ADMINISTRATION. After a long absence from these pages X have been under constant pressure and harassment from dis- satisfied Admin Staff—" Why don't we ever get a mention, Sarge? That lot down the Sheds are always in THE GAZETTE.*' Right then. Here's everyone (I hope), not necessarily in order of importance. Photo Sergeant Voice. Lieutenant Colonel Rees attests Michael Ore, the son of Captain John Ore of the Corps, presently at ASU Rhine Area. Our athletic team departed to the Corps Championship where the team came a creditable third in the Challenge Cup and fourth overall. The outstanding stars were Staff Sergeant Pete Marsh who repeated his performance of the Unit Sports by winning both the five thousand and fifteeen hundred metres events and SSM George Gormley, our resident DMA, who was second in a photo-finish in the eight hundred metres. Cricket continues on its successful route by convincingly defeating Com- mand Pay Office in the round of the Rhine Area Cup with Major Vic Nicholls the GMA and SQMS Terry Reifer both hitting very rapid scores of fifty eight, Congratulations go to Corporal Jim McNiven on his sub- stantive promotion and to Corporal Derek Milian REME^ on his promotion. We say a sad farewell to our RQMS Brian Manson who returns to Blackdown prior to retirement. We thank him for all his efforts and wish him all the best for his days of leisure. At the moment we say hello/goodbye or should it be the other way round, to now RQMS Brian Chambers who moves over to fill the RQ's job from being WOIC RSG. Other farewells this month are Sergeant Keith Straughier, who is dancing all the way to Oman, Corporal Tapper, who is posted on promotion with our congratulations and Corporal Mick Brewster—all leave with our gratitude for their service to the unit. Welcome is extended to Sergeants Paul Goodeve and Annette Goodeve WRAC, who occasionally * ride tandem' when he travels from his Mess to her Mess on his motorbike whilst awaiting a family nest to be allocated. INVENTORY CONTROL POINT THE Inter Unit Sports day has come and gone. From out of the office sprang forth some surprises, the main one being SQMS Wally McKie. He entered some of the events simply to gain a team point but much to his surprise he won the discus and came fourth in the hammer. This newly found talent of his has really put the bit firmly between his teeth as now he is training each day for the Rhine Area sports. Other winners were Staff Sergeant Pete Marsh in the fifteen hundred and the five thousand metre events. These he ran after his normal ten mile lunchtime session. Corporal Terry Kennedy is back with us having passed his RPCI Course and EPC examination and Lance Corporal Tracy Bowles has recently completed a basic German language course. It is believed she only volunteered for this after having an accident in her car and found she did not understand all the swear words used by the other driver. Lieutenant Colonel Eric Gill took Captain Stephen John, Corporal Dave Patterson and a party of three off to Switzerland on a walkabout. They were there for over a week and covered many difficult up-hill miles visiting a glacier on one of the days. All are back now looking like they picked up some rare disease but they assure us it is only peeling sunburn. On the subject of sunburn SSM Derek Ashdown is sunning himself in Italy and Sergeant Shirley Moore is on holiday in Jamaica. Sergeant Maggie Devlin, Corporal May Cockburn and Lance Corporal Sharon Conyon have been roughing it on their annual camp. Looking at the sun tans they came back with it must have been really rough, — > HEADQUARTERS. The CO, Lieutenant Colonel Ewens and his Planning Staff, have been extremely busy of late with the opening of the new St Michaels Church in Tower Barracks. A dedication service was conducted by Padre John Webb with the dedication performed by The Reverend C H. Jobson, Senior Chaplain BAOR. The Planning Staff consists of Major Frank Butterworth, Captain Ted Walker, Staff Sergeant Neil Cor less and Sergeant Colin Douglas-Hill. Mrs Eleanor Moody. PA to the CO. and the recently promoted W 2 Derek White (RAPC) complete the Headquarters Staff. HEADQUARTERS ADMIN. Major John Cantor (SAO) and Captain Mike Parsons (RAO) are at the helm, literally in the case of the RAO with all his sailing courses. The Chief Clerk, Staff Sergeant Colin Dewsbury is in deep water himself. Not only has he been selected to represent BAOR in an Inter-service angling competition, but he's also been hooked by Records for promotion, a Work Study course and posting. We reckon it's a red herring until we see it in writing. Corporal Nick Noble is the latest in an ill-fated line of Docs Clerks. Lance Corporal Mark Lewis is still golfing, our Leave and Travel Clerk Private Max Maxwell is on leave and his partner in crime Private Morph Mumford has just returned. Private Scouse Russell, recently arrived, is under constant pressure in the Registry and Lance Corporal Benny Hassan is our Post Orderly. The RP Staff is made up of Sergeant Billy Wreyford, Corporals Paul Shields, Ginge Howson and Lance Corporal Bob Steward, whilst the Training Staff of Second Lieutenant Jim Lancaster, Sergeant Jim Starkey and Corporal Graham Smith are fully occupied in planning for Summer Camp. Our Work Study Practitioners are WO I Steve Myers and W 2 Barry Baxter. I nearly forgot the RSM. Phew! WOl Brian Patchitt is currently involved with leave, summer camp, squash, leave,. summer camp and squash—and all the other things RSMs do, And finally yours truly the ORS, Sergeant Nigel Radford, EPC(A) and a pen rapidly running o u t QM STAFF. The CQMS is on form at the moment, having been selected for promotion, winning the BAOR Corps Pistol Competition and gaining third place in the Rhine Area Shoot. He is assisted by Corporals Roger Dunn, Taff Fallon, both newly elevated to sub rank, Lance Corporals Mark Wallis, Cliff Maffia and Boots Hawksby. Mrs Sandy Tutor has been replaced by Miss Jackie Knight, Gabbie Suehling keeps the office function- ing while others come and go. SSO DEPARTMENT, The SSOs Department usually write about themselves but for the record they are: Major Roger Tweed, Staff Sergeant Keith Jones, Sergeant Sean McPoland, Lance Corporal Paddy Coulter and Frau Hilda Radford. Corporal Les Knight has just departed but has left behind two daughters as a legacy of his stay—Chris is c/o Lance Corporal Cutler and Jackie c/o the QM. I said he was lucky! STORES SUB-DEPOT. Not a quiet month by any stretch of the imagination . . . . the OCs promise of settling down for a bit didn't come to pass as we all suspected. Fifty five thousand issues later we began to realise it was business as usual, except for, that is, our SSD Spring Ball, a most lavish, well-organised disco- 108 — |
| Book number | R0250 |