RAOC Gazette - page 101
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| Corps | RAOC |
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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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%\\t ®t tatton Mtto# ome of the COD. It makes one wonder if some people ever read DCIs, AGAls, UKLFOs and the DGOS Information Bulletin, Engineer Equipments Branch has two occasions to honour this month. We congratulate Sergeant and Mrs Swales on the birth of their daughter Lisa and Staff Sergeant Cornes on pass- ing his Driving Test. Major Graham Browning is already try- ing to enrol Lisa into his Poliywog Club, as though twenty seven children are not enough for his non swimmers classes at the Garrison Pool. Staff Sergeant Les Dalton is to be congratulated yet again on his driving prowess. This time it is for coming thirty second overall in the Scottish International Rally and being beaten into second place by the Ford Works led by Mikkola, Clark and Brookes. He was also the third Leyland car and goes into the Record Book as being the first Austin 1800 ever to finish the rally. We also congratulate Lieutenant Colonel Tony Camfield and Peggy Evans for their efforts in helping the DGADOS win the MOD Intra Departmental Drama Festival final. The pro- duction ' Ritual for Dolls' won not only the Drama Festival Challenge Bowl but the Best Actress and Actor awards as well. COD Chilwell came second and RAE Famborough third. No stars came forward from DSM to take part in the recent Donnington Garrison Sports Day but Major Browning swallowed his pride and came third in, of all things, the Old Soldiers Race. Rumour has it that he has not run since. Lieutenant Colonel Camfield and his son Paul both took wickets during the Military versus Civilian Officers Cricket Match which followed the Sports Day. Unfortunately the weather was foul but Messrs Gordon Williams, Roger Cooper, Graham Hobson and others revelled in the glory of winning and were delighted to receive the trophy designed by Captain Peter Veal. We welcome Captain Colin Buckle and his family to Technical Equipments Division and hope that his stay will be an enjoyable one. Headquarters Director General of Ordnance Services SECRETARIAT. The Annual Fit- ness tests have now been completed but regular weekly jogging sessions are to continue. Our over forties have also been showing the Head- quarters flag in the DGOS Challenge Stakes culminating in ten successes. At this time it is perhaps pertinent to divulge that the Corps Register shows exactly one hundred successful runs were recorded during the first twelve months since the Challenge was first issued. Now that the very successful and enjoyable visit by Her Majesty The Queen to the Corps is behind us the administrative load on the Secretariat has once more abated and this has now been further eased by the arrival of Major Bob Atkins who has taken over the duties of DAQMG Section one from 'caretaker* Captain Tony Wilson-Ing. ORD 1. Sergeant Geordie Cook, who after only six months of Hampshire country air left LE(A) in June to return to ir The Smoke/ joining 20 Squadron RCT at Regents Park. Before he left however we were delighted to see him presented with the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal by the DDGOS. He has been relieved by Sergeant Paddy Snowden from C Supplies Platoon of 4 Armoured Division Regiment RCT, ORD 3. Our contribution this month is devoted entirely to arrivals and departures. Lieutenant Colonel Brian Rivers left on retirement in June to join the Management Services of the Oxford University Estates and as his replacement we welcome Lieutenant Colonel Paul Crosby from Logistic Section 2. Other stalwarts who have finally decided to call it a day are Colonel Bernard Tarsnane (Retd) after eight years as an RO following thirty six years Army service and Major Eric Kirby (Retd) after a grand total of forty four years service. They have been relieved by Colonel Jack Hanlon (Retd) and Major Don Jenkins (Retd) (from Ord 1) respectively. Finally Major David Cary has left on posting to CV HQ and in his place we welcome Major Tony Rows from Headquarters Eastern District. Training Centre HEADQUARTERS THE Headquarters was well represented in the recent BFT which is the first one for the 1978/79 training season and we only had two failures but this was rectified a week later when they passed. The football season finished with us taking part in the RAOC six-a-side competition held at Donnington and in our league we won two and drew two but was pipped for a place in the semi-final by goal difference. It was a very sport- ing and enjoyable competition and the organisers are to be congratulated on a very efficient and well run tournament. Sergeant Lawrence is to be congratulated on being medically upgraded and is now training under the supervision of WOl Johnston for his BFT. Finally we welcome Captain S. J. Mitchell WRAC, who has now taken over as S03 S D ; we hope she has an enjoyable tour. TRAINING BATTALION AND DEPOT THE arrival of Major Dennis Ford as our new Second-in- Command and his instant devotion to Basic Fitness Testing has caused a fluttering of hearts amongst those of our population who are short of wind and a bit thick around the waist. His keenness on BFT is tempered by his horse riding pursuits, plus an interest in the art of fly fishing under the eagle eye of Major Trevor Douglas-Hill. We have said cheerio to Mrs Jane Ward of Officers Records Section after some five years of excellent work on behalf of Corps Officers; she is congratulated on her promotion to EO prior to taking up an appointment with the Pensions' Office at Guildford. Highlight of the month was the Passing Out Parade of Malta, Anzio and Aden Platoons, Some three hundred and fifty relatives and friends watched the Parade and were im- pressed by the high standards of drill and turnout. The salute was taken by Lieutenant Colonel J. R. J. Janes of the Employment Training School. He was very pleased to have the opportunity of presenting Long Service and Good Conduct Medals to three members of his own staff, namely, WOl E- Burrell, W 2 L. Shaw RE, and W 2 M. Reeves QOH, and also to Sergeant R. Dyer of QM *A.* The recipients followed the Headquarters of The Directorate of Supply Management (Army) S MAN 2 LITTLE news from the S Man 2 world other than the major event of the presentation of the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal to Staff Sergeant Andy Hamilton by the DSM(A), Brigadier Biggs, on 19th May. The presentation took place in the Sergeants Mess at 1200 hours with the PMC, WOl Tony Tuck (also of S Man 2) kindly agreeing to a bar extension! Staff Sergeant Hamilton was accompanied by his good lady, Mary, who refused to answer any questions on Staff Sergeant Hamilton's good conduct on the grounds that it could lead to the withdrawal of the award' We are joined by our colleagues in S Man 1 in wishing Brigadier Biggs every success in his new appointment as DDGOS and bid a warm welcome to our new Director, Brigadier R. W. Bromham. DSM(A) TECHNICAL EQUIPMENTS DIVISION IT is to be hoped that our readers will not be too disappointed with the brevity of these notes but it is a ploy to escape the Editor's scissors and censoring pen. Extramural activities seem to claim pride of place again but, after all, little drama occurs in the halls of Technical Equipments Division as far as work is concerned, We hardly had a chance to miss Lieutenant Colonel John Gentle when he paid a liaison visit to Northern Ireland for he was there and back in forty eight hours. The visit from us was long overdue if only because there are still many personnel in high and not so high places who still think that we have a Chief Provision Officer who comes under the Commandant 76 |
| Book number | R0247 |