RAOC Gazette - page 260
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| Full title | RAOC Gazette |
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| Publication date | 1981 |
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| Early date | 1981 |
| Late date | 1981 |
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McNaught and Sergeant Law have been deserted by Sergeant Williams for a short while; he is Driver Training at the Apprentices College. The look on his haggard face his now grey hair and enforced modifications to his Land Rover tell their own story. ADVANCED CLERKS TRAINING. The Advanced Clerks Branch is saying farewell to Sergeant Murphy. Spud made a very welcome addition to the staff in January this year, when he transferred from the Headquarters RAOC Training Centre, Well, thanks to an I of E Inspection in May, Spud has found himself Surplus to Establishment (though not to requirement!) and is now off to 154 FAD. On moving to Germany Spud, who never does things by half, is taking not only the usual new car but also, his new bride with him. We wish both Karen and Spud every happiness in their new posting. BASIC CLERKS BRANCH. OIC Clerical Training Wing is Captain Frank Buckelt RAOC and his WOIC WOl Clive Walch. All Arms Clerks Instructors are W02 Mick Duggan Irish Guards, W02 Davie Howe RHF, Staff Sergeant Dave Welham Scots DG, Sergeant Ron Phillpotts RCT 7 Sergeant Judy Leggott WRAC, Sergeant Dave Whitefield, Mr Ted Redwood, Mrs Carol Myers, Mrs Maureen Whyte, Mrs Pam Parrott, Mrs Ursula Douglas and last but not least Mr Tom Turnbull. These instructors teach potential clerks from every arm of the Army and have an approximate turnover of some eight hundred students every year. Supply Clerk Instructors are:—Staff Sergeant Mick Fortune, Sergeants Stu Thomson and Eric Hearn and Mr Bill Fisher who has an unbroken link with the Corps going back to WW2 when he enlisted as a -Private and retired as a Captain (OEO) and has been with us as an instructor some fourteen years! PRINTER TRAINING BRANCH. Congratulations are in order for Mrs Rose Catterall, wife of Sergeant Derek Catterall who gave birth to twins this month. Well done both of you and good luck with the ' double trouble.' Sergeant Salisbury is seen to be busy selling tickets for a Celebrity Snooker Evening to be held in the Tela Theatre on 1st October in which Steve Davis, the 1981 Embassy Snooker Champion, is to appear. Full report later. Three more RAOC students have joined the branch and the Printers can now field a formidable Volley Ball Team under the coaching of Sergeant Ray Hutchings. able retirement. Joe was given a course at the School of Ord- nance (see note 9). Be warned. Note 1. Proof that your correspondent is aware that there are Ladies as well as Gentlemen within the framework of the Corps, Note 2. Juan Ramon Jimenez—* Heroic Reason * Selected Writings (1957) to H. R. Hays. Note 3, Metaphorically as distinct from literally, of course. Note 4. A reference to the area to which the major has removed and recent events in and around that region. Note 5. Honest; if s true. Note 6. Reference to the fact that our latest recruits are Scottish and Irish respectively. Perhaps AG9 should be tasked to carefully watch the balance in units. Note 7. Proof of wide cultural interests on the part of the correspondent (fact culled from 1001 Totally Useless Snippets of fairly Boring Information). Note 8. A little local colour subtly inserted by your in- genious correspondent without materially affecting the substance of the letter. Note 9. Amnesty International having made representa- tions, Joe was released after two weeks. He is physically well and, as far as can be ascertained, mentally alert. Headquarters Scotland " On yonder hill there stands a Coo if it's no awa' it'll be there noo" McGonnigall. THE above couplet was found on my desk the day after Brigadier Berresford left. The paper had an unmtstakeable *A* Branch feel about it The Brigadier had paid us a flying visit arriving at Edinburgh Airport, visiting the Head- quarters and Regional Depot before fly- ing to Benbecula and then returning south from Glasgow Airport. Something we said obviously impressed as now Lieu- tenant Colonel Freddie Grant is coming up to find out what we meant, SIMPLIFY YOUR GIFT PROBLEM WITH A GIEVES & HAWKES Northern Ireland Gift Voucher HEADQUARTERS LETTER FROM A COUNTRY GENTLEMAN (with lucid and fulsome explanatory notes) Ladies and Gentlemen, (see note 1). Hello again from Northern Ireland. We're all as well as can be expected and working terribly terribly hard. WOl Dolly Gray seems to think that he'll impress us with his energetic en- deavours—he took a weekend off to run in the Manchester Marathon—We are not im- pressed young man, as has been said " The greatest assassin of life is haste, the desire to reach things before the right time which means over-reaching them " (see note 2). Ord Branch had a purge recently, metaphorically speaking of course (see note 3), Major Mike Newman has gone to Germany (horrible place, all that cheap booze, those cheap cars and that nasty, nasty LOA) and Major Anthony Aggett has turned all studentish and hairy at Manchester (Daddy, Daddy, why has that man got a buliwhip~-see note 4). In their place we have been lucky enough to receive two thrusting young majors, (see note 5) Ian Ross and Jack Ewart (stand up that man who asked why we were only getting colonial officers in the branch now (see note 6). Corporal Leo Lenord is currently brushing up on his Russian— not so much a defeatist as a posting to BRIXMIS. They do say that a vodka and caviar supper acts as an aphrodisiac (see note 7) —I must try it sometime. I should, 1 know end on a happy note, instead 1 end on a cautionary note—it happens to us all. Joe Henshaw, a civvy, who spends his day in Ord Branch (works would be a little too strong a verb) was at last caught; pleas to the International Court of Human Rights were rejected, a petition to the Irish Commission for Justice and Peace (see note 8) was ignored; Joe was sentenced. At the age of sixty three, with a long blame- less career behind him, with two years to go until an honour- Available in £5 denominations to any quantity FUJ In tbc form bdow and th* Gift Voucher will be sent to you by return of post. I EVES & l-L'WKES 1 1 LTD Mail Order Department 22 The Hard, Portsmouth, Hampshire POI3DY Gift Vouchers are supplied in a folder. Please inditaie ynu requirements in the appropriate box/es. £15 £20 , tomv GiewesA Hawkts I I enclose my cheque forJE. 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