RAOC Gazette - page 227
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| Publication date | 1981 |
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| Early date | 1981 |
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known for his boldness on many an occasion, he most problems, with dauntless persuasion. Higher °' ters he tackles with panache, then when things bog f'[ sends them a flash '° j , replace this deposed King of Materiel we welcome Major , ir Us Bayley and his wife Barbara from Antwerp, we hope ' h Jjr stay with us is both enjoyable and instructive, {Regret that space pre vent A- the printing of long verse.— eJi{0r ) ' STAFF CLERKS out ,. HElTO there!", Staff Sergeant Ralph Jackson G I / G 4 nniich here. As the Staff Clerk contribution to T H E G\ZETTU |L L ,n 1st Armoured Division has. been occasional, I have been LV.:.s! to keep you up-to-date with any noteworthy happenings •onth, with contributions from my Chief Clerk, W 2 A jit and the Chief Clerk of * G ' Branch Staff Sergeant pl u l uadsden, Being a new arrival, I would like to start by saying farewell to my predecessor, Staff Sergeant (now WOZ) Roy Coe (Good lack in your new rank Roy). The most recent excitement in Verden was Summer Sales 81 —which clashed with Wimbledon (G EPS 1 (BR) Corps please On this exercise the soldiers living accommodation no te). (Soldiers sleeps) was co-located with Soldiers scoffs and it was re- nV.'.rkcd upon that Staff Sergeant Phil Gadsden had great difficulty i ' mg in a shift between sleep, nosh and the centre court. e still looking for the sadist who declared NBC red during me tenth game of the fourth set of the men's final! Another rare and exciting occasion in Verden was the Headquarters sports afternoon during which the branch volley- ball team continued the tradition of losing in the first round of every inter-branch competition this year. However, some three weeks later Corporal Dave Tressider more than atoned for this setback by winning outright the Headquarters Engineer Families Treasure Trail—a very rare honour At the time of writing Corporal Tony Crawshaw is spending three weeks leave ng Verden—it was to have been four weeks touring Europe .,, .he inclement (some would say lousy) weather in the Mosel, Vienna and Halifax has deterred him. (Never mind Tony, you need the rest with all that hair to carry round). Much to the relief of many in Verden, Lance Corporal Steve Turner departed to Munster—talk about out of the frying pan He has however, served his full sentence, without remission and has qualified for the order of the ' triangled tankard' (Some say that medals should be awarded for serving three years here?). Now on to the poor unfortunates who must have upset ' OC Records—the new arrivals. Firstly—Sergeant Bob Mays w... G3 Branch, who burst in from Soest a couple of months ago and has totally upset the Ops Officer by re-organising and re- arranging everything in sight in the Ops world. Secondly, Corporal Bob Shiels takes over from Corporal Bob Leat (who has gone on promotion to SHAPE) as the Ops Corporal G I / G 4 . Lance Corporal Gary Hughes moves up from RDC to G2/G3 and is in the Int and Sy chair, a floor higher (moving up in the world). Our congratulations go to Private Bob Roney and his wife Laureen on the production of a baby girl—Nicola. Lastly, and most definitely least, no article would be : nplete without a mention of Private Dave Marshall; the pet ^•ffer (not the Oxford Dictionary meaning). This is only to say he's going on leave in September and claims that it is his first this year—the Chief of 4 G ' Branch says his leave plot does not concur. ORDNANCE COMPANY THE attentive reader will have deduced from last month's jottings that we were about to relocate grounded stock on top of Mount Everest. Common sense dictated that attempts should first be made to reduce the size of the mountain (grounded stock :' U is, not Everest) and a joint PC and A/Storehouse operation > led to so much backloading that Viersen must be worried a out where they can put it all. In the event, much hard *ork by all hands and many MHE hours have succeeded in moving half the stock. Keep at it lads! With great regret, the unit Summer Camp was cancelled due to a shortage of adventurous training equipment at Dulmen. On the plus side, this has led to the planning of an expedition to Corsica which might just have the edge on the Harz! The athletics team put in fine efforts at the BAOR Cham- pionships including many personal best performances. Despite i experience at this level of competition, the team came seventh ! i behind 3 BAD. A group of mummies from the Wives Club went to see another group of mummies at the Tutenkhamen Exhibition in Hamburg. Rumour has it that Corporal Harley also took them on a tour of the docks and other areas in the PRI minibus. The company had to say farewell to several notable characters this month. The Administrative Officer, Captain Storey was posted to Bielefeld and Q Jones to Rheindahlen. Privates Bacon and Lewis departed still owing the OC a beer for fixing their postings. Anyway, back to grounded slock. Anyone want to buy two hundred Number Two Burners with no working insides— going cheap? STORES PLATOON 1 ARMOURED WORKSHOP REME LIKE the weather things are changing at Fallingbostel. Captain Hurst has arrived from the educational ivory tower of RMCS Shrivenham to take over from Second Lieutenant Ian Robertson- Second Lieutenant Robertson after a short introductory course into the Corps is the YO's course (after five months in the chair at a Stores Platoon, rather a formality) moves up to 1st Armoured Division Ordnance Company. The Workshop had its open day this month which was a great success. One of the highlights of the day was a Power Pack change on a Leopard I battle tank by our Bundeswehr counterparts; time Lwenty minutes. REME officers were heard muttering * Makes you sick! 1 The other highlight was a water race between various departments of the Workshop. The Stores Platoon were in a commanding lead off the ' final bend, 1 when they were dis- qualified on a mere technicality, but I suppose you can't fight a fire with the water turned off! Q Collins nipped in for a quick visit on his R and R, you can't keep him away, although his wife, Margaret tried. We welcome back from Ireland on a more permanent basis Lance Corporal Gerry Madine and Private Jed Gosney. The football team are still hard at it, with mixed results, a narrow defeat by 1st Armoured Division Ordnance Company was quickly followed by a win over 3 Queens LAD. Keep it up lads we'll get that DOS cup soon. Private Tiller has gone on leave to get married, con- gratulations and best wishes from us all For this special occasion Tiller decided to have a facelift! Finally with travel in mind we say goodbye to Corporal Dirk Wilson and canoe, and also to Pat Pollard who worked in ^ our office. Good luck to you both on your new postings. We also welcome Lance Corporal Robert Darling from 39 Regiment RA. 2nd Armoured Division HHHB ^^^^^^By^H ^ ^ j ^ ^ ^ ^ ^9 H^^kjC^^^H ^ I ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ I ^ H ^^J^^fcJ^^B Iflft^V^ftl ^ V ^ H ^ t U i B l ^ ^ ^ H ^ ^ I HEADQUARTERS RAOC HAVING got over the monsoons and Summer Sales we returned to camp to And ourselves Redundant With the im- pending move of the Headquarters back to UK to become Headquarters 2nd In- fan try Division, there is much speculation about postings. The rumour that there are two vacancies for Sergeant Sup Clk in this Headquarters is not true. Sergeants Al Dunn and Mick Haverty are back from the School of Ordnance, having learnt how to digress with the best of them. Our D O W 2 W 2 Greg Gregory has since been nominated for two courses in digressing, one after the other, but feels that only one is required now, especially with all the 4 pressure.' Corporal Chris Dick complained that he never got a mention, so keep on crawling and you might get one. Congratulations go to Lance Corporal Bunn on his pro- motion to Corporal and Private Bottomley on his promotion to Lance Corporal. Now to the Jns and Outs of the Headquarters. We have said goodbye to FSO Bill Rogers and Mrs Rogers and hope that their new post in Shrewsbury, brings them as much good cheer as they have had in Lubbecke. Major Jim Steele has left us on Exercise Long Look for six months; the thought of having a Christmas in the middle of summer I We welcome Mr Adrian Orrey as our new FSO, and Staff Sergeant Newman as Chief Clerk G Branch. Finally we wish to welcome to the Corps A/Private Peter Baker recently enlisted into the Apprentices College. Peter's father is Sergeant Dave Baker OUT Sergeants Mess Manager, late of 87 Supply Depot. ORDNANCE COMPANY THIS past month has seen the Company performing its infantry role, with two weeks Field Training at Camp Vogelsang. The time was well spent covering the more interesting things in the 189 — |
| Book number | R0250 |