RAOC Gazette - page 184
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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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Staff Sergeant Rick Delamont are handy with bat and ball and others to show their cricketing prowess are WOl Jack Redfern, W02 Dave Vincent, Staff Sergeant Rod Hart and Lance Corporal Bill Musson. From a range of photographs of the Supply Depot we have selected one of Sergeant Lennie Loughran doing a machine carve- up in the butchery. The selection wasn't easy because they are ail handsome chaps in the Supply Depot! Finally over at 14 Field Workshop Stores Section, WOl Pat Kelly is now at the helm and is collecting more country and western records. Staff Sergeant Pete Hewitt is destined for (he Ammunition Inspectorate in BAOR and ho is to be congratulated on his forthcoming promotion to W02. RAOC Cyprus « •*-. -^*s^^^^ I I &rx \ i i ^ J fib I •HrjYjBP U k W ^^^»)&F ^^E^F ^^^r Photo Karl TieU. Sergeant Lennie Loughran cuts the carcass in Berlin. rgeant Jim O'Bryan but Corporal Frank Cockayne has al- idv beaten them to it. Best wishes from us all for the ture. ^ur new arrivals since our last newsletter are WOl Pete «v• n, the BOWO. WO) Will Cooper our WOIC Vehicle Sub ;pat and Corporal Gordon Soeilner with Major Nigel impard. Major Hazelrigg and Major Miles Greenhalgh, to- ther with Staff Sergeant Scott and Sergeant Davies * due in.' Some of our staff have turned to the water as it were d boat courses are much in vogue. Four members of the lit have already sampled the nautical delights and are proficient >at handlers. These are WOs2 Dave Vincent and Brian Wicks, aff Sergeant Rod Hart and Sergeant George Handyside. At the iv of writing Lieutenant Colonel Colin van Orion our Com- > ier, is on a similar course with Captain Jonathan Rollason i WOl Wilt Cooper. A further seven have applied for later urses. Suitable warnings have been given to seafarers on the avel \ Sergeants Handyside and Greg Gregory have also been i basic German courses. What a versatile lot we are! Training for our field and regimental rotes has been going i apace. We have been practicing our skills at the Ruhleben ghting Village, this time off-loading storing, and issuing in the •ban environment. We have also been learning about first aid, >ing plenty of BFT runs and doing our annual range courses. '•-. also hosted the 1981 BAOR Accommodation Services Con- ion. Pop panels have also appeared in the Ordnance Services ossary. The Ammunition Sub-Depot started it off forming a jp Panel team and having a lively session at the BFBS studio. hen an Orderly Room team, consisting of W02 Keith Kilgour, irgeant Jim O'Bryan, Corporal Duggie Hill and Lance Corporal ill Musson came on the scene. They have swept all before em and the team is top of the Pop Panel League. Potential sc jockeys all! Our unit Wives Club, under the able care of Mrs Barbara "•on, have also been active. In the past few weeks they have •J the Supply Depot Bakery and FRIS Section and have been t trip to Braunschweig by military train. They are soon to >ar to even greater heights by having dinner at the Funkturm ^taurant and there is also talk of a boat trip on the Haveh et more warnings to the local seafarers! In the sporting world, tennis is now getting an airing. The mmunition Sub-Depot duo of W02 Dave Vincent and Staff |rgeant John Edwards are quoted as saying that they let it-uitenant Colonel van Orton and Major David Avery beat wni six two; six one since they ' didn't want to let the Colonel - •-••!! the losing side/ The Ammunition chaps did beat a 229 •T -1 Squadron team in the first round of the Berlin Champion- i but were then beaten by Major Avery and Major Vietch. I'te latter team is still battling on. Cricket is also in vogue and •rdnance Services provide six players for the Alexander Barracks 'am. Our able provisioned, Captain Jonathan Rollason and THE Annual RAOC Cyprus Summer Camp (see separate article) has come and gone, and Headquarters personnel are all back at their boring old desks, longing for May 1982 when they can again be hounded around the Cyprus hilts in the hot sun and be subjected to differ- ing forms of torture. Sergeant Rees of Con- tracts Branch keeps pestering the Adjutant to take him out on a five mile march and shoot, as he enjoyed it so much at camp. Lance Corporal Hart is currently recovering in hospital after an operation on an unmentionable area of his anatomy, suffice to say he has difficulty in sitting down. Staff Sergeant Booth is back into his cricket gear most after- noons and manages to knock up the odd half century here and there, he is quite useful out of the nets as well! We welcome to Materiel Branch Staff Sergeant Long who has taken over from Sergeant Thomas in the Vehicle Section. He has already registered himself for the Cyprus Walkabout com- petition, due to take place in early October, and has persuaded Captain Walsh and Sergeant Curtis to join him in an Head- quarters RAOC team. The RAOC Families Day was held on the middle weekend of Summer Camp at the camp location at Evdihmou beach, as all facilities were readily available. The day was a great success and a good time was had by all. CRAOC Lieutenant Colonel Field spent most of the day giving boat rides for children, around the bay, in his speed boat, and needless to say he was the most popular person on the beach. Other activities in- cluded pony rides, canoeing, a snorkel treasure hunt, organised by WOl 'Long John' Hubbard and an obstacle race. A powered hang glider demonstration was due to take place, but unfortunately, unfavourable winds did not allow this to happen. The day ended with the Grand Raffle, the star prize of which was a weekend for two in a hotel in Paphos, won by Sergeant Carlyle of RAOC Akrotiri. The sporting scene has quietened down somewhat, now that the weather is that much warmer. Most people take to the sea in the afternoons and play with boats, windsurfers and scuba equipment. Captain Walsh, however, manages to organise the odd Cyprus Services Athletics meeting just to keep people in shape, and recently the Army team, Captained by Captain Walsh, beat the RAF team in the Inter Services Athletics match, a splendid achievement, AMMUNITION DEPOT. In case nobody else mentions it, it is getting hotter in Cyprus; and in the Ammunition Depot, we are getting busier. We are now in danger of having nude storemen streaking around the Depot looking hot and bothered! A cool Corporal Caldwell (our Clerk) has been joined by his wife Diane and baby son Mark. Our other Corporal, (Corporal Douglas) requests a * mention * from his sauna in the depths of the depot because he was 4 forgotten' when he arrived eighteen months ago. Actually for the sake of the records, our nominal roll also includes, Major Fitzsimmons—OC and SATO, WOl Hubbard—Senior Ammunition Technician, Staff Sergeant Johnson, Sergeants Hunt and Hoit—Ammunition Technicians, Sergeant Gill—Storage, and last but not least Private Bullard— who has to do a bit of everything! AKROTIRL We are delighted to report on some honours recently awarded within the unit. Six of our civilians received commendations from CBFC/CLFC. Between them, they have over two hundred years service with the British Forces in Cyprus. The recipients were John Kontogheorghis, Neo Christo- doulides, George Sotiris, Chris Triteos, Costas Mavrocordatos and Mary Papanastasiou. We extend our warm thanks to them for their loyalty and sincere congratulations on their com- mendation. 153 — |
| Book number | R0250 |