RAOC Gazette - page 80
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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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Golf is the ' i n ' sport at the moment, although the CO of 1 • • K Workshop tends to call it "static hockey' hm! Our football team has played twice but failed to register a win. However, participation is the main thing. Captain Bowen and Lieutenant Williamson spent Whitsun ut in the sticks. Captain Bowen spent a lot of time paddling around the Mohnesee in an inflatable dinghy. Lieutenant Williamson and four fellow officers took the platoon tent out into the wilds. It must have been good, everybody giving orders and nobody to carry them out! Congratulations to Lance Corporal Bonsall on substantive promotion and to Lance Corporal Soellner on promotion. We say farewell to the following on departure WO I Chisholm to UK, Corporal Dickinson and Private Falrley to civilian life, and welcome Corporal Folland, Lance Corporal Bourne, Privates Godbold and Johnson. STORES SECTION, 3 ARMOURED DIVISION ENGINEER REGIMENT WORKSHOP SINCE our last 'Newsletter' much has happened on the exercise front. We have successfully completed Exercise Broad Reach, the first full Regimental Exercise since restructuring. After the hills, valleys and rivers of the Hameln area, Soltau would seem paradise. With elements of 3 Armoured Division, the entire Regiment crossed seven bridges in one night (is this a record?). (Division Editor's note: Replies to the Stores Section please, not to me). The Squadrons are now on leave in preparation for train- ing for our Operation Banner tour in July, The lucky Stores Section personnel who ' volunteered ' are Lance Corporal Mike Lowrie and Private Bomber Edwards. Best of luck lads, better you than us. We welcome, exchanging respectively their green com- mando and powder blue AAC berets for those of a more sober hue, Privates Jim Collins and Jim Latham. Congratulations to Lance Corporal Moore on his promotion to Corporal after many hours trogging, jogging and a variety of other physical fitness activities. We close with the news that Lance Corporal Paul * Taps * Taphouse has finally gone native on local release. There is a rumour that our WOIC is in a happier frame of mind since he left! 4th Armoured Division HEADQUARTERS RAOC THE season of Spring is upon us once again, and in true fashion Headquarters 4 Armoured Division RAOC personnel cele- brated the Pagan festival with a dinner dance in the * Steinmeyer' Gaststatte Herford. The evening proved such a success it has now been decided that we celebrate each season accordingly. We welcome to the Ordnance Branch Lance Corporal and Mrs Gordon Cuthbert from Northern Ireland and Private Ernie Wise the CRAOCs new driver. We welcome home after a long stay in BMH Rinteln Mrs Eve Heritage wife of WD2 Keith Heritage, also a big welcome home to Frau Suzanne Piontek wife of Herr Alvin Piontek our illustrious vehicles clerk. The staff of Headquarters RAOC paid an official visit to The Queens Own Hussars in Detmold which proved a resound- ing success, so much so that the CO asked us to let him know well in advance when we were coming again. The staff in- cluding Mrs Jan Brown (Miss E. & MA Clerk 1978) were driven around Hob art Barracks in a Chieftain tank, a 432 and a Ferret Scout car and all have now applied for a transfer to a Cavalry Unit. Our CRAOC has donned his directors cap once again and is busily organising scenes for a new MOD film to be pro- duced by RAOC. Captain Charlie (Hutch) White is arranging locations and cast for the production and is overwhelmed with calls from eager starlets, the DOWO even had a haircut 1 Our S02 Maint, Major David Bramble, has been kept very busy playing tennis for the Division* refereeing rugby matches and participating in the Herford Players latest production ' Ghost on Tiptoe.' ORDNANCE COMPANY ••\PRi'L has been a busy month for us here at Detmold. The Jftain reason was due to Exercise Pack Saddle. Pack Saddle nad been looming large on the horizon and it put a constant *jram on several members of the Unit; Second Lieutenant Chris Walker has been near insanity many times. After extraordinary With reference to the May edition of The Gazette, W O l Al Sutton watches the Country Dancing whilst longing to be a Scot and wear a real kilt! transport problems and endless bags of crisps, Captain Ivan Greeves and 184 Petroleum Platoon (TAVR) eventually arrived and settled in quickly. The first couple of days were spent in unpacking the PUE, then they moved off into the field. The exercise was a complete success and we were impressed by the professionalism of the TAVR. We all wish them well and* hope to see them again in the future. Second Lieutenant David Inshaw has learned one lesson since his arrival. A very basic one, that it doesn't pay to argue with Land Rovers as they always come away without dents and scratches, This month we have said goodbye to Major Champion and hello to Major P. S. Walton. We have also said goodbye to Second Lieutenant Wallace who simply cannot stay away from Sandhurst, Staff Sergeant Dinsdale, Sergeants Parnell and Norman, Corporals Smith and Mack, Privates Parr, Edwards, Mackey, Rosser and Fielding the table tennis buff. Hello to Second Lieutenant Inshaw, Staff Sergeant Drennan, Sergeants Clydesdale, Buchan and White, Corporal Cole, Lance Corporals Staniforth and Knight, Privates Dunnell, O'Neil, Hayward, Rafferty, Thornett, Dobson, Mawson, Henry, Hope, Culleton, Overall and Sampson. Congratulations to Private (Scouse) Thornett who was married on the 25th of March. We look forward to welcoming his wife Anita to the Wives Club, Congratulations are also in order for the following pro- motions, Corporal Unwin to A/Sergeant, Lance Corporal Pauley to A/Corporal, Lance Corporal Kirk to A/Corporal, Privates Brock, Edwards and Dawson all to A/Lance Corporal. Sergeants Maye and Straughier have returned after com- pleting their Storeman's Bl Course. Sergeant Straughier did very well in coming top. On the 7th of May the Company followed along the lines the former 20 Ordnance Field Park; this was in the field of running. For many years 20 OFF ran up HermannsdenkmaL and still does under its new name. Now this has extended to the popular German pastime of running and walking for all* On Sunday 7th May, three teams were entered in the Eighth International Hiddesen "Walking/Running Event. The results were quite unexpected. Two teams were entered in the twenty kilometre Wolkslauf or run. Not only was the Company to come first and third in the team event, but Sergeant Duncan Leitch came first overall with a time of one hour seventeen minutes for twenty kilometres. All members of the teams received medals. The other team was entered in the ten kilometre * speed' walking event. Again we came first in team event led by Staff Sergeant Kelly, For that they too all received medals as well as the team trophy. The event was well attended by one thousand six hundred and twenty four people. After the various events a bratwurst 57 — |
| Book number | R0247 |