RAOC Gazette - page 61
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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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• Mge purposes to their home countries. It has caused the [• .,[ Qfike some consternation and given us here a great deal of a:vjsement. Brigadier Bob Persson is off to Dubrovnik for some well earned leave at the end of the month. He's taking with him, in addition to his wife, a sheaf of ' White Perils' in case any- thing should occur to him to remind us about. Lieutenant Colonel Charles Foskett has established some kind of record. Despite giving the appearance of not being here very often he has managed to clock up 150,000 miles during his eight years of service to the School. Any advance on this? Having enjoyed a fairly successful winter-type sports season wc are now performing merrily—work permitting—on the cricket ivJds of Blackdown. Domestically we are unbeaten and for the Training Centre we provide almost half the team but with only limited success so far. CENTRAL VOLUNTEER HEADQUARTERS WITH the arrival of the warmer (?) weather it has become increasingly difficult to keep tracks on the Staff of CVHQ. Major Fleming, WO I Clark, RSM Hendry and Uncle Tom Cobbley and all have either departed or will depart for the wilds of BAOR, allegedly to assist TAVR Platoons training over there. One expects a rush of 'King Edwards' around tl:ese parts shortly. If HM Customs and Excise will turn a blind eye to the bulging combat suit pockets and overloaded kit bags. Staff Sergeants Pitts, Means, Dadd and Windsor have all just returned from Belgium and BAOR. If Staff Sergeant Windsor spends much more time at Olen he wilt soon speak more Flemish than English. The constant to-ing and fro-ing of both Volunteers and Permanent Staff causes headaches for Sergeant King. He spends most of his time running in circles booking, cancelling, arrang- ing and disarranging flight tickets, train tickets, ferry tickets, tnptiques and all the other bits of paper involved in moving people and vehicles to and from training areas. Perhaps a skateboard would be of use to him. The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst ONCE AGAIN, notes from Sandhurst, they seem to be passed through more hands than an FA Cup Final ticket on the black market. It's been a good month for Lance Corporal u Ken * Robson, his wife gave birth to an 'A' grade and he gained a baby girl on his Bl clerks course! or was it the other way round? Oh the pressure! ! ! We welcome Private 'Chris' Pavey, who has joined us from the * factory.' At the moment he is trying to master the keyboard of his type- writer but most of the time ends up manhandling and cursing l it. When he arrived out of the blue, Major Jim * Houseman's eyes lit up and he had thoughts of 2IC's PA. After some fast talking Staff Sergeant 'Pete * Harrison poached him away with a promise of a job which would guarantee him some work. WOl Ian Birchall has finally arrived from SHAPE, to make WOl Eric Briggs, (posted to civvy street) and the tax man very happy. He wanders around the Academy looking into his now thinner wallet, muttering "Where has all my money gone?" out of tune. Lance Corporal * Jim * Robertson has now gone to the Open Sanatorium (NI) as a civvy—wish him and his family luck. The latest rumour in the Academy is, with the Defence cuts, Staff Sergeant * George' Stephen CC AQ branch, is doubling up as CC Gymnasium as it appears he spends more time there than in his office. Or maybe he's keeping himself fit to out run us all when someone is needed to write up the next lot of Corps notes. Posting orders, BATUS, ERSP, Upgrading Courses, RPC, Trips to Cyprus and BAOR—the smarter than the average Staff Clerk is a very mobile person within RMA. Socially we are to be very busy in the next week or so. The Junior Ranks Academy Ball follows hotly on the heels of the Families Day for which we warm up by a free trip to the Albert Hall for 'An Evening with Andy Williams.* When it's all over k we can settle down with thoughts of sending our * families to Butlins for a day, all in.' Northern Ireland Sergeant McCee looking happy about his trip to Cyprus. Sergeant McGee sits here looking smug, telling everyone he is going to Cyprus on a recce. We know why he is really gorng. We suspect it has a lot to do with Sun, Sea and Ouzo. C••;.: photograph shows him pretending to be overworked (still With his smug expression). Congratulations to Lance Corporal Jones on being pro- moted Corporal. THE D G O S FITNESS TO THE OVER CHALLENGE FORTIES THE undermentioned successfully completed the distance: — Captain J. H. Harradence, ASU Aldershot; Captain B. A. Page, OStJ Rhine Area; Brigadier C. W. Smith GM, COO UKLF. HEADQUARTERS RAOC THERE was a ripple of cheerfulness when we suddenly saw the sun come out of hiding, and this was folowed by a burst of activity on the grass cutting front, in the quarters around the place. Major Leslie (soon to be Cobber or Pongo) Brown finally decided that he was really proving nothing by persisting with the use of his issue type side wheeler mower, and joined the queue of his bretheren for a loan of the destitute RO Ills Flymo, and someone said " ROs are surplus." We also noticed a distinct tendency to smile on the faces of Captain Gordon Geddie and WOl Dave Brunt who have received posting orders, the former to Manchester University on a two year * sabbatical' sojourn (he is not taking his tadpoles with him) and the latter to Germany (did I hear someone say "After the Lord Mayors Show!") He is talking in terms of Ford T Cortina Estates; a far cry from erratic, I don t want to he seen in it, old time ' B L ' 1100. Well at least the ROIII (same one) will get his portable typewriter back from extended loan. Major John McConville has now entered the sporting landscape in white flannels, wielding a large piece of willow for Lisburn Garrison, and we must say with a certain amount of success, eight hundred and eighty eight yards worth (in tne approved provisioning manner the formular for establishing the number of runs is to divide eight hundred and eighty by twenty two on your pocket calculator). We lost. Lisburn Town Civic Week culminated in (you'll never believe it) a firework display, they very kindly announced it, and so avoided us hiding under the dining table. Finally we welcome the arrival of Gina May McConville on 27th April. Our hearty congratulations to the McConvilles. Welcome to Staff Sergeant Les Davison and his family and Corporal Steve Phillips and his family. We wish WO2 Kevin Hartely and Sergeant Ian Sylvester, good luck on their postings. For a long time the * Logistic Brief * for visiting dignitaries had said that our ammunition Sub-Depot was * replenished over |
| Book number | R0247 |