RAOC Gazette - page 160
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It is widely hoped that he will eventually speak lo us ic Division continues to support Garrison tennis right .: , L imely. The team includes Lieutenant Colonel Maurice Jjui , and Major David Williams plus Lieutenant Colonel Dai )a.vies and Major Bob Lawton. Their most recent achievement aided by two others from Chilwell) was to reach Eastern district finals by beating MCTC in Colchester. Before you s k, the answer is ' N o , the tennis courts were not locked from ^ outside.' See next month's enthralling piece for news of the j n ul. The latter dynamic duo also played in the Corps "hampkmships at Aldershol. Alas, they returned with little ' sh«w save sun-tans. The Chilwell /Donnington team in the J-,. Depots Cup competition failed to win the tennis and the However, it was an enjoyable match, r - y was thereby lost. J-IO 'earn maintaining the standards set by ChilwelPs and Don- jin^ion's golfers and cricketers. " We bid farewell this month to Squadron Leader Peter \utie and welcome his replacement Squadron Leader Bob Not- Tiun who returns to Chilwell after a break of two years. He was previously on an exchange appointment in Headquarters COD. [L may not be widely known that there is a RAF group in Vehicle Branch. This fine body of men and women manages :he RAF vehicle fleet for MOD (Air). Squadron Leader Peter 4 i»ie now returns to the rigours of life on an operational (- ' F station. We will miss him. He will doubtless miss his KAF weekends which are objects of envy in London, Chilwell and East Anglia. Training Centre SCHOOL OF ORDNANCE IT is some time since anyone at the School was honoured with a medal so we r r | i ^ ^ ^ C ^ HSl. .,-. , — _ congratulate Major Bob Atkins on his \\ ^.—^ —* - Rhodesia Medal. (See page 122). , .*,**>—. .—_*- Congratulations too to Major Ray I: |L^—4*-——JI Ansel (USA) on his forthcoming pro- l \ Q I motion to Lieutenant Colonel — nine hundreth and ninety ninth in line, and to Captain Mike Roycroft on the birth of a third daughter weigh- ing two thousand nine hundred and sixty grams: work that out! We have played our first soft ball match which thanks to Major Ray Ansel's umpiring resulted in a victory for the Officers against the SlafT—the former boasting some of the best and most decorative players in the persons of Mrs Paddy Clark and \ iss Viv Eltringham and the latter with Mrs Lyn Warner, CENTRAL VOLUNTEER HEADQUARTERS THE TA annual camp at Fremington is now over and all the TA members have returned home whilst the sun-tanned PSI's are back at CVHQ waiting to go on block leave. " O h ! to be in Training Branch now that summer is here!" I have just been reminded that the winter training season starts in October, and the PSPs only have six weekends off in the next twenty six! 1 notice that all the permanent staff are walking about ; i a very sprightly manner these days. Mast be because they ..11 passed the BFT at Fremington, and are out each morning running around Deepcut. The RAOC TA Sponsored Units Shooting Team have had a busy time at Bisley, and more trophies now adorn the display cabinet at CVHQ. Well done! Special congratulations must go to Corporal Philip Weatherby who for the second consecutive year has won the Queen's Medal for Champion Shot (Territorial Army and Reserve Forces). A really outstanding performance. Recently, all the officers and senior ranks, accompanied by :heir wives, had a most enjoyable night out at the Headquarters IAOC Sergeants Mess. After an excellent meal there was lancing to a first class band, and it has been agreed unanimously ihat we must do it again very soon. Well done Staff Sergeant Trevor Griffiths who organised it all. EMPLOYMENT TRAINING SCHOOL PRINTER TRAINING. Farewell and bon voyage are extended to Ex WOl Cliff Poison and family who are emigrating to the sun and beaches of down under and will be in-situ by the time this edition is in print The Branch is now ticking over with WOl Brian Langridge, Staff Sergeant Ged Warnes, Sergeants Len Salisbury, Ray Hutchings and Derek Catterall. Main achievement this month is claimed by Sergeant Derek Catterall who has been shooting at Bisley with the Unit and Corps Teams and accumulated a lot of silver to his collections, well done. Sergeant Len Salisbury conned the remainder of the training slaff and students to a day's sailing club and nearly drowned the boss and PO Morgan with two spectacular capsizes in one outing —mind you it is still felt the first one was not meant to happen— but Len won't have it. All in all it was good fun and it is hoped to have a repeat. ADMIN WING. Now that the TSW has been amalgamated into the Chief Clerk's office, he is trying (and we really mean trying) to put W02 John Dales out to grass with the already chewing Sergeant Sandy Short, both soon to be given civvy street. During the last year John Dales has run a number of Resettlement courses from the School, only to find that he was the only student—never mind John, not long to go? Let us remind you who we are in the new department: Admin Officer Captain Wally Auton, Chief Clerk, Staff Sergeant G. J. Long, Corporals Ian Moore and Peter Brown. The Commandant of the School Lieutenant Colonel W. E. Stark is soon to depart and we also say farewell to Staff Sergeant Alan Coulbeck on promotion with a posting to Hong Kong and welcome Staff Sergeant Mick Fortune from BAOR both within Supply Clerks Wing. APPRENTICES COLLEGE SINCE Heather House was struck by lightning a month ago we've had a few bright sparks about the place. Seriously, the old house hasn't been the same with scaffolding and workmen everywhere. Pressure has been put on me to mention that Staff Sergeant Mick Rooke came second in the Garrison Pole Vault com- petition. A pat on the back too for Corporal Nobby Clarke who passed his RPCl and received an excellent report. Well done Nobby. Congratulations are due to Sergeant Kevin Nicholson on his recent promotion. Although he hasn't left us, W 2 Ted (Grandad) Patterson has moved to a new job within the College. His humour is sadly missed in Heather House. Ted takes over from Staff Sergeant Dougie Maclean who is off to Bicester on promotion. We wish him and his wife all the best in the future. Finally, welcome to Corporal Mark Snelson who joined us recently from BAOR. We hope he and his wife enjoy their stay in Deepcut. 'A' COMPANY. The last few weeks have seen many new faces in the Company with the arrival of two brand new recruit platoons. Both Arnhem and Ardennes Platoons have started off with thirty and thirty one apprentices respectively and the total loss to the wide world after a short tour here is approximately eight apprentices. They have settled down very quickly and are showing a keen interest in everything that has been and is being thrust upon them. Good luck to all of them! After our adventurous training in rainy Tenby it was deemed by the powers that be to form the College Corps of Drums from the whole of Anguilla Platoon. There were great gasps of dismay and loud howls of horror at the prospect However, they have spent many hours practising the blowing of bugles, striking of drums and caressing bell-lyres to achieve what can only be described as a very pleasant sound to everyone's ears. Their engagement diary is continually being added to and bookings reach far into December this year. Arakan and Aden Platoons have had very successful battle camps with all apprentices looking extremely weary on their return to base. Arakan has two sections on ELT camp who found the final exercises a great success whilst the third section were able to look into the ' crystal ball' during this period and come up with the correct letters at the highest check points. Our fourth term platoon, Alamein, are still hard at their trade and driver training achieving very good results on the trade side while with a mixed bag of results on the driving side. The College tank has been brought up to scratch by the platoon to be resprayed by ETS and should soon be gracing the College lines yet again. Orienteering has come to the fore yet again with the OC and 2IC competing in the REME Corps Championships. To- gether with A/Private Thompson, they managed the REME minor units runner up prize. Major Bunyard won the M43 Class individual award. Not bad for a RAOC Apprentices College. The CSM has been equally busy but with Parascending. In fact most of his time is spent either in a parachute or help- ing someone else into one. Now he has a full week off to get some Sappers off the ground. We hope they have more success than the College did during Summer Camp. On 12th July 1981 the World Nurdling Championships were |
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