RAOC Gazette - page 93
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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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Jfor tlje $Utorfc OUR OLDEST MEMBER EX-SQMS HARRY TOMMS was born in the year 1884 and is, I believe, the oldest member of the RAOC Association, certainly he is one of the founder members. Harry enlisted at Aldershot for the AOC on the 25th May 1905 and was sent off to Woolwich. From there started a career which took him to Sierra Leone, Singapore, France, Germany, India, Hong Kong and China. After discharge in 1927 SQMS Tomms joined the Civil Service and was employed at Aldershot until final retirement, Recently, he paid a visit to the Corps Museum —during his ninety fourth year and almost seventy three years to the day after his enlistment. Photo Captain M. Parsons. A cheque for £1,500 for disabled children. The College has been supporting the nearby White Lodge Centre for some three years during which time a total of nearly £5,000 has been raised to help the children. Last year's donation went to help finance a new classroom. Picture shows the Centre's administrator, Mrs Carol Myer, receiving the £1,500 cheque from Apprentice Sean Hetherington, OUR Ex-SQMS Harry Tomms aged ninety four and our oldest Association member at the museum with RSM Terry Joll. EBBAGE COURT MANY of his friends will be interested to learn that in June this year a half million pound complex of Royal British Legion flats for ex-servicemen was opened at Woking by Lord Hamilton of Dalzell, Lord Lieutenant of Surrey, and named Ebbage Court after Major V. S. Ebbage MBE BEM RAOC (Retd), who was guest of honour with his daughter Joyce. Vic retired from the Corps in December 1956, but as many will recall, continued on in Ord 2 until his final retirement in 1966. Then at an age when most of us will be happy to rest on our laurels, he took a wide interest in local affairs, one such activity being to become President of the local British Legion Branch. He was at the forefront of Legion activities in Woking for several years and it was for this that he was honoured. APPRENTICES COLLECT DISABLED FOR SENIOR CONDUCTOR RETIRES CONDUCTOR BRADLEY at present the Warrant Officer-in- Charge of the Stores Section at Long Marston and the Senior Warrant Officer of the British Army, both by length of service and by appointment, retires this month. He joined the Corps in 1951, and after initial training as an RD instructor sub- sequently qualified as a Technical Clerk. Within eighteen months he was promoted to Sergeant, thus confounding the crystal-ball gazers who had earlier prophesised a long career as a private soldier! He was promoted to WOl at the age of thirty one and appointed Conductor when he was thirty rive. He has had a long, varied and much travelled career and his wealth of experience will be a loss to the Corps. The high- light of his career was being selected to escort The Queen to the naming ceremony of the locomotive " Conductor" during Her Majesty's recent visit to the Corps at Bicester. WM TiJSfWwwwmwi^ THE OVER £1.500 was raised by the Apprentices College in a door- to-door collection to help a disabled children's home. About a dozen Apprentices, accompanied by the then Com- manding Officer, Lieutenant Colonel Norman Bruce, had a chance to see how their money was spent when they visited the Centre to hand over the cheque. — 68 Conductor Bradley escorts Her Majesty during the visit of our Colanel-in-Chief to the Corps at Bicester. |
| Book number | R0247 |