RAOC Gazette - page 62
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| Corps | RAOC |
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| Material type | Journals |
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| Full title | RAOC Gazette |
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| Publication date | 1978 |
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| Colour | No |
| Grey | No |
| Early date | 1978 |
| Late date | 1978 |
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Our old BOO (Captain Andrew Harrison) has now left us to make some money^-in civvy street. WOl Fred Rowberry has vacated the Superintending Clerk's chair for easier duties with UKLF. Luckily his replacement already played golf so there were no problems with the handover. W02 Graham takes and moves from Chief Clerk G Branch to his new job on pro- motion. Other departures are Corporal Guy Elliott, who is going on a UN tour in Cyprus, and Corporal Lenny Hardmarj off to Hong Kong. Meanwhile, all the other staff clerks are working out ' days to do * and looking for letters with a Records Office post mark. Apart from training for the BFT, golf and squash are the main sports of the moment. Lance Corporal Roy Bingham plays a lot of squash which is really very remarkable as he is usually on leave in the UK or planning exotic holidays abroad. The Superintending Clerk and BOWO (WOl Dougie Riddell) have both been spending a lot of time recently recceing all the local golf courses. We provided part of the Signal Squadron team in the Brigade Golf Championship and -Sergeant Dave Crab be who is attached to the Signal Squadron and W02 Graham both put in good performances. Obviously, if you play golfj Northern Ireland is the place to be! Ordnance Depot Northern Ireland Once more to the beach. C R A O C / C R C T combined operations. the beach at Ballykinler.' Well, our CRAOC was determined (and when he is determined he is determined!) that this should * come- to pass' and with a bit of help from CRCT it did I To prove it all is a photograph of them, both in the bows of LCL HMAS Ardennes at Ballykinler. We couldn't get him a bucket and spade but we did make sure he had a load to carry over the beach at Ballykinler, we filled his ceremonial am- munition box with sand! STOP PRESS, Headquarters Northern Ireland football team won the RAOC six-a-side football shield beating COD Chilwett by two goals to nil. Well done lads but don't get any ideas about Argentina we can't afford the fare, APRIL drew to a close with Lance Corporal Mike Frend lead- ing a marching team of Staff Sergeant Alan Chapman, Lance Corporal Ken Bayley and Privates Gordon Smith and Fus Fazakerley to blisters and medals at the Sixth International March held by the Royal School of Gendarmerie at Brussels. They are still limping after marching forty two kilometres but with their supply of ' duty free ' exhausted, their exploits are not listened to with the same rapt attention. Sergeant Sammy Williams led the hockey team to a credit- able quarter-final place in the Northern Ireland six-a-side tournament despite the regular players being away shooting. Captain Alastair Shackleton has also had a physical month attending a PT Course. He now intends to inflict all manner of nastiness on the rest of us in the name of "Fit to t i g h t " So far he has only taken it out on his dog whose name has changed from * Buttons' to * Russett' and the familiar cries of 1 fetch * and * bring * have been overtaken by ' watch' and ' kill,' With Captain Mike Wilcox away advancing his Ordnance Officer knowledge, W02 Tony Bailey and Staff Sergeant Tony Drake have been doing their best to backload all the ammunition —while the cat's away! The VSD have excelled themselves during the month. To begin with W02 John Crosland took one of the new minis on a road test with the yellow number plate on the front and the white on the rear—he does not know whether he is coming or going after his sailing trip from Portsmouth. To cap it all Lance Corporal Dinger Bell ' lost' a Land Rover. After much frantic telephoning he found it in the centre of Belfast with * Felix * threatening to disfigure i t For the first time the Depot were represented at the Corps Shooting Meeting and considering the extremely limited time for practice they did us proud. After disembarking at Liverpool, and within a mile of the docks they heard a sound like a shot. Hearts fluttered and eventually red faces reappeared from the floor boards after Lance Corporal Chris Hadley explained that it was only the windscreen shattering. The team's best perform- ance came in the falling plates competition where they were R A O C Headquarters 3 Infantry Brigade. Rear row: standing left to right: Lance Corporal R. Bingham, Lance Corporal D. R-ae, Private P. Lewis, Private W , Bradley, Corporal S. C. A . Mc~ Kendrick, Corporal C. L Elliott, Corporal M . O Day. Front row sitting left to right: Sergeant W . Little, W 2 J. Graham, W O l D. Riddell, W O l F. A . Rowbeiry, Staff Sergeant A . H . Bond. HEADQUARTERS 3 INFANTRY BRIGADE ONCE again it is time to remind the RAOC in general and in particular our Manning Office of the small cadre of RAOC clerks in Headquarters 3 Infantry Brigade in Portadown, County Armagh, The past few months have been quiet but we have seen many arrivals and departures and have all been busy with various handovers. We welcome our new BOO, Captain Neil Dyer, Staff Sergeant Jim Bond from UKLF, and Privates Pete Lewis, Wally Bradley and Sharky Cooksey. _ 44 — |
| Book number | R0247 |