RAOC Gazette - page 40
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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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Privates Bridgeman, Cherry, Luxford, Mumford, Nevison, Shcl- drick and Walsh to ODA, and to Private Rohacz on CASEVAC. Congratulations to Lance Corporal Softley on promotion* and to Sergeant and Mrs Cork on the birth of a daughter Sarah, and a warm welcome to Lance Corporal Clark ACC and the families of Lance Corporal Lewis and Private Clark. STORES SUB-DEPOT DULMEN DULMEN retains its attraction for visitors and over the past month we have again had more than our fair share. The main attraction was the visit by the Defence and External Affairs Sub-Committee, a party of nine Members of Parliament, A visit of such importance clearly required much rehearsal, in fact at one stage we were rehearsing for the rehearsals! A particularly delicate point was the matter of rain protection, golfing umbrellas were available—but what colour? Luckily the Corps colours came to the rescue and the correct balance of blues and reds were available to avoid political bias! A party rapidly merging from obscurity is the Dulmen Golf Club. They gave a very creditable performance in the 15 COD Spring meeting recently and returned with a fair share of the spoils. Worthy of mention were Captain Ellis, Staff Sergeant Miller, Sergeant Thacker and Lance Corporal Christian, The emergence, is no doubt due, in part, to the screening on German television of the US Masters Tournament. To equate Dulmen's six"hole pitch and putt to Augusta, Georgia, would be frivolous, but they do have one thing in common—water. Whereas in Augusta it is in the form of a picturesque lake, in Dulmen it is better described as a swamp. Undeterred, however, the stout- hearted lads don their wellies and squelch off to the first tee! The frantic flailers of the hockey team are also performing with distinction. They have just won the DOS Hockey Cup, beating arch rivals Viersen by three nil in the final. Congratula- tions are due to Sergeant Pittaway, Corporal Nickson and Private Walsh for selection for the Corps, as was the seemingly permanent fixture of the side—Staff Sergeant D'Souza, Another very sweet victory over Viersen was by the Dulmen rugby team. This season they have finally shaken off the * music-hall joke' tag and climaxed the season with a good six to four victory in a good blood and thunder match which is almost a tradition when these sides meet. It has been a good season with a roughly equal number of wins and defeats, In the finest traditions of the Corps we are looking up the part number to demand a good (if slightly used) back row to start next season—Any offers? In the April edition we attributed the photographs on page 340 incorrectly—they were in fact taken by Staff Sergeant White. 1st British Corps * ^^L J^L ^E ^ ^ 4^E^^k ^ H | v ^ H ^m ^^M ^^ ORDNANCE BRANCH THE correspondent for the last two years has left us for the rural pastures of Salop to see out his declining years; before he left he was heard muttering something about becoming another Jimmy Saville—a sort of 'Chas'l fix i t ' This brought an immediate rendition of 'A Spoonful of Sugar' from the PA. From the first of April there has appeared a new crop of appointment titles within the branch making nearly everyone SO something or other. There is a debate on at the moment as to what to call S02 (Maint) on exercise when he is in charge of POL, it has been suggested SO (Blue), any advances? The branch is at present enjoying a period of relative calm with no exercises to enjoy. Everyone is catching up on missed leave with Major Stuart Rowsell taking most of the leave every- body else has missed. Staff Sergeant Rogers took his leave but wasn't sure? so now has an overdraft On the sporting side we are still running, jumping and hitting, achieving moderate success and just failing to take the Commander's Cup. A hearty welcome is extended to the new ADOS (or is it SOI?) Lieutenant Colonel Alan Knipe and his wife Julie, we hope their stay will be a pleasant one. Congratulations to W/Private Helen Twidale who is now W/Corporal Twidale, it's surprising what you get in Ops! There is absolutely no truth in the rumour that Lance Corporal Paddy Keating has been seen walking about with his trousers at half mast! Staff Sergeant Jim Gleeson has been Medevac to the UK to undergo a series of tests, we wish him a successful out- come and a speedy return. STAFF CLERKS GSO 1/2. Sergeant Alan Buckwell, Corporal ' Scouse' Hayes and Lance Corporal Jim Shanks, our men in SD2 are full of smiles now that the restructuring side of the branch has been completed and passed on to the other branches of the Head- quarters. They are wallowing in the fact that they now have their heads above water again, though not according to Alan! The G Branch sponsored Church Sunday went off very well with Sergeants Alan Buckwell (not him again) and Fred Laycock doing the job of Sidesmen admirably. The rest of G were in very good voice and judging from the noise some of them made we now know that ' crows' are not only black feathered! W/Lance Corporal Vannessa Dike had a double celebration this month. Firstly, her film was screened at the SKC, though rumour has it that most of the audience fell asleep! Secondly, she was twenty one for the very first time. Lance Corporal * Taff' Cowman and Private John Robertson 1 couldn't afford the traditional 'key of the door so they gave her a real one wrapped in a box of shredded waste. John was also feeling chuffed with himself, scoring six goals in the Commander's Cup five-a-side soccer, thus helping G 'branch to win. Well done. G TRGiEPS. We have at last said farewell to Corporal (now Acting Sergeant) Jed Stone. He has moved from G Training here to the corresponding branch at Headquarters BAOR, so we have by no means lost contact with him com- pletely. We have it on very good authority that * rumour control' is now well and truly established in that Head- quarters. To mark Herr Stone's departure members of the branch, accompanied by the Assistant Supervising Officer, WOl Allan Robinson, 1 decided to sample the delights offered by ' Downtown Bielefeld. The evening started calmly enough in a local Gastatte with all concerned downing half-litres of ale as though it had gone out of fashion. However, events moved swiftly from thereon and the evening culminated in one of the more dubious establishments that exist in the Stadt Apart from the action taking place on stage, the other attraction of note could be observed in the form of Jed fast asleep in a corner, where he remained for some three hours! Anyway, all who lasted the pace thoroughly enjoyed themselves and a good night was had by all. By the time these notes are published we will have said farewell to Corporal J. Arthur Lehmann who will have moved to G Air, We congratulate him on his substantive promotion and would like to thank him for all the hard work done for this branch, both in the office and out on the sports field. In his place we welcome Lance Corporal Mick Ford who has moved up into daylight from the depths of the R and D. Corporal Alan Morris scored the two goals which won G Branch the Commander's Cup five-a-side soccer competition; Private Brian Marsden spends most weekends playing golf while young Lance Corporal Bill Laight is now counting the days until he and W/Corporal Kathy Earlie are married in Sep- tember, Welcome to the branch Corporal and Mrs Charlie Bowden. Congratulations to Lance Corporal Bill Cox on passing an RPC2 course; we wish him well when he takes his RPCl next month. AQ Coord have said farewell to WOl Mac McGill and his wife Margaret (who will be sadly missed in the Super- vising Office), en route for a tour in Brunei. In Mac's place we welcome WOl Mike Newman after a twelve month tour with UNFICYP, He has already settled down in G Wing of the Sergeants Mess! Other postings in are Privates Stuart MacDonald and Tony Mackey. We wish them a pleasant tour in Bielefeld. 1st Armoured Division A HEADQUARTERS RAOC ANY thoughts that the workload migfr ease once we became an Armourec Division have already been dispelled April has been a busy month, in particula: for the C Sups element: Major Johr Hammond and Sergeant Al Cowlisha^ s e e m t o s enc a S£67L^-^ ^*~~5tt> P * ^ thefr *i m e w ' t n finger v£iii§Qj=|£jJS» flying over calculator keys, looking a 26 operation — ^ There ^*—J-*^ has was been a «* RAOC completed hands the 1 result Armoured up many and in times horror then Division either this or month, Ladies delight. throwing Dinne thei Thi |
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