RAOC Gazette - page 28
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| Corps | RAOC |
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| Full title | RAOC Gazette |
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| Publication date | 1978 |
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| Early date | 1978 |
| Late date | 1978 |
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promotion, posting and one of the first recipients of the RAOC Award For Achievement. Well done Tim on all of ihem and we wish you and Maddy all success for ihe future. In his place we welcome Captain Mike Noblett who comes on com- missioning from BAOR. Finally we say farewell to Mr Erroi Williams who has been promoted to HEO and has moved up- stairs to REME. One understands that he is now 'managing' PTOs if that were possible! TECHNICAL EQUIPMENTS DIVISION LANCE CORPORAL GYPO WALTERS had a very enjoyable and successful two weeks on his second visit to the snows this year. He attended the ASA Winter Meeting at Aviemore and won the Gratwick Cup for the best RAOC novice. Our Lieutenant Colonels seem to be very busy at the moment, we hope the trend continues. Lieutenant Colonel Tony Camfield is burning the midnight oil and the candle at both ends at the Henley Stan* College: four weeks of fourteen hour days and only one weekend free. Lieutenant Colonel John KostofT is doing a Cooks tour of BAOR and we are all worried that he will come back imbued with the spirit of real soldiering. Lieutenant Colonel John Gentle in the meantime has been standing in not only for the other two Lieutenant Colonels but also for Colonel Davies who has been trying desperately to use up his balance of leave, Stat! Sergeant Les Dalton and his team are busily looking for some high boiling point brake fluid for the Donnington rally car because it goes so fast the normaj fluid boils. After one or two hairy incidents they came twenty eighth out of one hundred and twenty starters in the Craven Motor Club Rally from Reading. We had two teams in the Donnington Scramble as well as one or two runners scrambling for the Hash Veterans. Although our team came sixth Corporal Willie Baxter managed a very creditable ninth overall. We don't like to talk too much about it but Staff Sergeant Mel Hamilton came twenty seventh out of the fifty four running in the ladies event He should have come in the first ten but on the second lap he was delayed in the sticks: but he won't say why. Some of us hope that even though the cricket season will be upon us soon we will still be playing hockey. To keep the flag flying our hockey players Sergeant Steve Swales, Corporal Willie Baxter, Private John Babbage and Major Graham Brown- ing spent a Sunday playing at the LI Depot six-a-side festival. No trophies were brought back this time but the full day's hockey was enjoyed by all. Communications Branch have suffered a sixty per cent change over in their military officers since we last wrote. Majors Mike Roberts and Tom Moffat have left. Mike was unable to sell anyone his new telephone number at Stanmore in spite of hawking it around and looking expectant and thirsty at the bar. Tom has left us for the rigours and uncertainties of civilian life and we wish him and Anne his wife every success and happiness. Captain Brian Nimick has gone to the School to impart his wealth of experience and knowledge to the gullible officers on the OOs' courses. We welcome in their stead Majors David Simmons and Chris Morton and Captain Brian Roberts. We also welcome Staff Sergeant Hartley. VEHICLE DIVISION THAT Inspector of Establishments ' Captain Hatchet' is coming to poke his nose into the goings on in Vehicle Division—I hope he has a good sense of humour—or can move quickly, as any- body standing still in Chilwell (as you all know) is either just leaving or has just arrived. But frivolities aside for a second, much time and labour has been spent pouring through pro- cedures, job specifications and descriptions in updating and re- writing. At least we now know what we are meant to be doing. I wonder if it can be considered a coincidence that Colonel Paddy Groves has left to Colonel S Man 2, Lieutenant Colonel Mike Watts has gone to Northern Ireland to be followed by Captain Andrew Dexter. ' Rati exeunt etc? .* Captain Andrew Harrison (Retd) joined us for his last six weeks of service during which time he delved into the bilges of MTSP looking for details of spares that have been around for so long that they are being packed for sale at Sothebys. The results were quite startling or so it appears as Andrew is now counting flies in the Oman Desert! Those stalwarts of Chilwell sport in MTSP have been raising the flag on the playing fields of Eton (or was it Nottingham Co-operative Dairy). The Chilwell Garrison football team, under the spirited guidance of Sergeant Bryan Booth, have just knocked 6th Field Force Ordnance Company into a large cocked hat by beating them six nil in the semi-final of the Richards Cup (Chilwell did not pursue the follow-on). On the local front the Chilwell team are involved in the Nottingham * Thursday League* making their way to the final of the ' Bull Cup.' Without catling the nominal roll of the football team we have indeed some excellent players who have played in a commendable season. Such names as Staff Sergeant Larry Emberly, Privates Bomber Wells and Nick Marshall have had a good season knocking them in, while Davy Cox at the other end of the field keeping goal has had an equally good season knocking them out. Vehicle Division are having true representation in the Chilwell Garrison Players as the production of ' Not Now Darling ' enters the final month of rehearsals. Sandra Whittlesey, that well known extrovert in Provision Group, is to play the stripper (sorry, tickets are all sold) who causes the trouble and is the centre of the plot. Ms Janet Cook from MTSP and Ms Maureen Miles from UCSM also feature in less startling, but nonetheless, important roles. It's all to be seen at Chilwell! We used to say " It's all go '*! Those now marked absent on parade are Colonel Paddy Groves, Lieutenant Colonel Mike Watts, Captains Dexter and Harrison also Private Towers on discharge and Private Hoarea on detachment to Cyprus (I hope you get sunstroke!). A very warm welcome must be extended to Lieutenant Colonel Alan Kennedy who has taken up the wheel in Vehicle Branch and to Captain Paddy O'Connell having arrived back again to take up the item history sheets in MTSP. May your stay in Chilwell be long and memorable. Directorate of Land Service Ammunition ONE advantage of saying goodbye is that you can always mark the occasion by uncorking a bottle. The phased withdrawal of DBD and DSCS from Didcot Station provided numerous excuses and occasions to maintain the flow. Our Director, Brigadier Denzil Cowdry, celebrated his fiftieth birthday on 2nd March to the sound of popping champagne corks. There was more bubbly to be had at the farewell party for Captain Mick Pritchard on 29th March. Like many eminent predecessors he has joined the ranks of sand worshippers in Saudi Arabia, presumably to run the ladies keep fit classes in Riyadh, After the farewell came the DLSA Re-Shuffle. This dance has really caught on. It is a variation on musical chairs but the music never stops and you carry your own chair (desk, type- writer, riling cabinets ) Sensible branch heads go on leave and the camp staff are going sick* Next we expect The Arrival, Already there is a cloud of dust on the northern horizon; incantations in a strange tongue are borne to us on the wind; the lost tribe of Ammunition In- ventory Branch cometh forth frorn Bicester, Once they have joined us we hope the shuffling will stop and we can all get down to some serious tennis. We know we are good at sport because we retained the Bari Cup Plate award and the sailors are training hard already for the DLSA Nassau-Belize leg of a future cruise! Training Centre HEADQUARTERS THE last month has been very hectic as far as sports are concerned. The football team played 10 Ordnance Support Battalion in the Quarter final of the Richards Cup and were worthy winners by five goals to two in a very entertaining match, we also took part in the South East District six-a-side competition and put on a very good show coming third in our league, it was a very enjoyable day. The rugby team beat 10 Ordnance Support Battalion in the final of the Hill Cup in front of a good crowd, Major Cooke our DAA and QMG, is walking around with a permanent smile on his face. He has just received his posting order to Oman as OC SAF Ordnance Depot We also welcome Major Stock (Retd) as Staff Captain *A,' Lieutenant Colonel Wells (Retd) moves from Staff Captain 'A' and takes over the reign of PLO from Brigadier Haddon (Retd) who has now retired. Private Simpson our WRAC girl, has just returned from a short PTIs course and she did so well that she has been selectee for the six months course, we wish her well. SCHOOL OF ORDNANCE THREE arrivals to report this month, Major Bob Maclagan frorr LE(A), Captain Brian Nimick from DSM(A) and Staff Sergean Esslemont from Bramley. We hope they have a happy anc fruitful stay with us. Captain Scott Allin has left us, after r very short stay, for the joys and salary of civilian life. We wist Tricia and he every success, |
| Book number | R0247 |