RAOC Gazette - page 176
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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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Headquarters Rhine Area * *—~^MH \m 1 & B B J c j " > —— \^M ^ H ^H ^B \ WITH' a sizeable changeover of faces since " u r ^ a ^ submission, a rehash of personalities I i s a rnust this newsletter. Lieutenant Colonel TT^J ^ H ' ^^m I ^v | ^^ y John Franklin still fills the CRAOCs, sorry, Comd Sup chair. Major Alan Swindley. single figure golf handicapper (he says) and purveyor of Mercedes vehicles extraordinaire replaces Major Bob Hoy as SOZ Sup (Mat). Major John Harradence, congratulations on promotion, carries on as S02 Sup (Co-ord) llK | Major Eric Goodson (Retd) continues to strike terror into ,11 Aviators from (he G1098 accounting system. OWO SSM Alan Carroll, after four months, sixteen f i md kilometres and visits to diverse places between Norway, g u - e l s , Brunsum and Heidelberg has found that there's more to Rhine Area than meets the eye. Staff Sergeant Alan King. Chief Clerk and honorary comforter to US Army * gun bunnies' replaces Staff Sergeant Joe Hogg whilst Sergeant Steve fhomas has now mastered the intricacies of vehicle fleet control and QVs A and B. Finally, Lance Corporal Dave Howard; between trips to foreign parts and awaiting strange phone calls from certain parts of the Mediterranean! mobile Ord assistance team. Fire Advisers John Heal and Charles Walsh have settled ; .i their new office; well somebody's in there muttering about "iv.ly one p h o n e " and sundry unprintables! Within Rhine Area, welcome's to Major Boucher ASU SHAPE, W02 McManamon Willich Workshops, WOZ Murray 60 Station Workshop. Our farewell's and best wishes to Major Phipps, WOsl Regan and New sham and Sergeant Chick. 89 SUPPLY DEPOT LAST MONTH proved too much for 89, to write the monthly re'.es due to the handover of CC Sergeant Mike Blair (Secret ; irrel) to Sergeant Alan Riches. Two days later a documents in:pection was held. However, no problem as the new CC sweet talked Maureen Wellham (known as Mo) to stay behind late for two nights (for work!!) to ensure that this unit obtained a high standard. The ARU was also held and the OC, Major Ray Vincent disappeared on a German course during the build- up ! On the day all went well. The Depot Supt W 2 Dave Timms departed with Sergeant Dick Watson to Bisley for the shooting leaving the new Depot Supt W 2 Andy Brathwaite to arrive and take over in his v .ence. Well done to Dick in coming fifth and Dave thirty ' >t. Still no sign of the OC! W02 Andy Brathwaite has made a hit with the cricket team with Ord Depot by getting five wickets in his first appearance ably backed up by Sergeant Davey Jones. Corporal John Longfield provided the highest score to ensure that the team now goes into the quarter finals of the DOS Cup. Congratulations to the swots of the unit, Corporals Billy Cairns and Graham Moore on taking all subjects on EPC and passing all, while Second Lieutenant Jane Fausset still con- tinues with her German Colloquial (drinks all round when she i ts the money on passing) the rumours start here! Hie Rheindahlen Allied March proved to be the thing here and a well organised team entered by (Captain) Staff Sergeant Frank Smith (he ran all the way and came fourth) the others made up of Second Lieutenant Jane Fausset, Sergeants Geordie Holliday and Alan Riches, Corporals Billy Gairns, Graham Moore and Nigel Eames plus ex-army Mr Alan Hardie. We all completed the forty five kilometre circuit and received the medals whilst putting on a brave face counting the blisters. Still no sign of Major Ray Vincent and now that Second Lieutenant r me Fausset has been promoted to Lieutenant, she is often seen oking into the OCs office. Many congratulations Jane from all .' us. Congratulations are also due to Corporal and Mrs Jim F.ccleson on the birth of their daughter Kate and again to Corporal Billy Gairns on passing his RPCl. Still no sign of the OC? The Burgermeister and the Commanding Officer on the saluting dias. Tony Rees are pictured above on the saluting dais. The event was a tremendous success with fifteen hundred people attending and a sum of nearly £750 raised for charity. The shooting team returned to UK to represent Rhine Area in the Army Shooting Championships at Bisley where they put up a sterling performance for a small unit coming thirtieth in the Minor Units Championship. The team com- prising Major Ian Coleman, WOl Dave Timms, W 2 Bob Nesbit REME, Staff Sergeant Cass Clayton and Sergeant Dick Watson were thirty fifth in the Rifle Championship, twenty second in the SMG Concurrent Team Match, twenty fifth in the SMG Team Match, a tremendous seventh in the Pistol Team Match and thirty first in the Team Section Match. W 2 Bob Nesbit and Staff Sergeant Cass Clayton performed excellently in the LMG Pairs Match coming ninth. In the Pistol Tiles the team was ^ beaten by the eventual winners in the quarter finals haying survived five rounds beforehand._ Individually WOl Dave Timms was desperately unlucky to miss an Individual Pistol Thirty Medal by one place having equalled the scores of the two com- petitors above him but being excluded on countback. Star of the team was Sergeant Dick Watson who finished in the Army four hundred in the rifle and who came a splendid fifth in the Individual Pistol Championship with a score of four hundred and nine points which would have won in previous years. Special mention must also go to WOl Barry Erskine and Staff Sergeant Harry Smith for their back-up and administrative support of the team. On the cricket scene the Depot has successfully defended the Rhine Area Minor Units Knock-Out Cup beating 154 FAD Wulfen by five wickets in the all RAOC final in which even the umpires were Corps. The Commander 15 Ordnance Group, Colonel Roy Carruthers presented the trophy and assured the ensemble that is was not * rigged * that Captain Bill Coulton of 15 Ordnance Group was one of the umpires. We say goodbye to Sergeant Dave Holmes, Corporal Derek Millan REME and Lance Corporal Phil Drysdale all on posting and their respective wives Irene, Muriel and Lorraine, We welcome in WOl Dave Timms, who has already made his mark in the Unit, and his wife Jean, Corporals Dom Tomala REME and Brian Smith, and Private Jim Oram and his wife Lindsay who is with the WRAC in Rheindahlen. Finally we congratulate Sergeant Bill Oakley REME, who * straightened o u t ' the shooting teams weapons, on promotion to Staff Sergeant, Private Glenn Roberts on promotion to Lance Corporal, and Private Chas Stanley on finding his way back from BATUS looking twice the man who went. Forward Ordnance Depot Dulmen THE month has seen the entire military complement being put through its paces at the annual summer camp in Leuth. One third of the unit has received training in all military skills on each of the three week sessions which have been interjected by some most interesting and unusual visits. Meanwhile back at ranch, while the others have been digging holes and receiving special cam-up hints from WOl Nanovo, issues within the SSD reached a peak of fourteen thousand five hundred in a week, the second highest figure ever recorded. Nobody, especially our new arrivals Corporal H o m e 15 Ordnance Croup ORDNANCE DEPOT VIERSEN T -IE Depot held its Annual Sommerfest on the 27th June at ••• uch the Principal Guest was the Biirgermeister Hans-Willi Cjerke who took the salute at the Beating of the Retreat Ceremony performed by the Band of the 3rd Royal Tank Regiment. The Burgermeister and the Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Colonel — 145 — |
| Book number | R0250 |