RAOC Gazette - page 267
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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 | 1981 |
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| Colour | No |
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| Early date | 1981 |
| Late date | 1981 |
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We have just had a very interesting visit from the Daimler . L - • -jt Car Register who are a group of people who maintain and .1 w old military vehicles. They were fascinated by our rather «K ver vehicles and envious of the fact that we have acquired a [V-43 Daimler Armoured Car to add to our collection. We hope to get it through an MOT so we can show it at fetes and shows— alongside its modern equivalents. 3S Group RAF found us on the map for Exercise Live Log so *hat their Chinook helicopters could lift out light armoured vehicles on issue to BAOR. WRAC girls manning the tele- printer in Tech Admin was quite a novelty—enjoyed mainly by the night duty staff. They claimed to have played snap lo while away the exercise silent hours. Sergeant Vic Peters should have joined Lance Corporal ;i :k Horner in Belize by now to help him sort out the problems. Corporal Billy Fagan and Lance Corporal John Sword departed for Antwerp still swinging the lamp about their Northern Ireland tours. DGOS was shown around the various stands of a military skills competition. General Brown then experienced the other side of the TA by joining the lads for a l swift half' in the Junior Ranks Club, The DGOS then went to the Officers Mess where, together with the GOC, General Ward-Booth, and other Officers and ladies from Headquarters Western District, there was a buffet supper. On the sporting scene sufficient enthusiasm has now been generated to put a 52 Company football team into a local civilian league. It is also hoped to combine our basketball training with the COD (our next door neighbours) and produce a quality team for the season. We are of course preparing our weapons for the winter league small bore shoot as well as eyeing up the new recruits for a possible recruit full bore team for Bisley next year. PS. Training instructions: Personal for Lance Corporal Buchanan. Wlien carrying out eating and drinking drills in a gas chamber you will find that the oatmeal blocks show a signifi- cant improvement in flavour and texture if the cellophane wrapper is removed before consumption of the biscuit. ASSOCIATION NEWS TERRITORIAL ARMY Shropshire Branch 52 Company RAOC (V) HITHER we serve the best beer in Telford or the TA is begin- ng to become a more attractive proposition as our recruit take is now so high that we are up to establishment for the hrst time. Mr John Teasdale our tame civilian Clerical Officer is up to hts eyes in recruit farms, vetting applications and a multitude of other paperwork. Our CQMS stores on the other hand is completely bare, The training programme over the past month has been arduous and varied. A two weekend JNCO Cadre Course certainly showed that Leek training area can be an inhospitable place at any time of year. Wind, rain and mist, coupled with some command tasks that would tax the imagination of the inners of the Krypton Factor certainly made for an interesting „*w days. The three sections under test were also in com- petition with each other. Lance Corporal Mitch Couzens and his section led the competition from the start of the second weekend and did not relinquish this position. His team scored. ten thousand one hundred and seventy points overall, some one thousand points ahead of the nearest rival; well done. On the social front, 52 Company was most privileged to be asked to entertain the DGOS and the Commander Western District. The DGOS visited the Company on a drill night to see *he type of training that goes on and to see the enthusiasm nd expertise of the TA soldiers. Having been briefed on the .nit by the Officer Commanding, Major Andrew Postance, the IT must be very unusual to say welcome and goodbye at the same time to a new Chairman of a Branch but this we do in the case of Colonel Turner who, by the time you read this will be well entrenched as Brigadier, Commander Training Centre. It must be said that whilst his stay was short he has left his mark with many suggestions for the future of the Branch. We wish him every success and hope to see him back in the future, Half a dozen of us joined Birmingham Branch recently for the Steam Railway Lunch Trip to Bewdley and we had a wonder- ful day. This was quickly followed by the Branch St Leger Draw and Buffet Dance which was thoroughly enjoyed by the ninety four contenders. (We would have enjoyed one hundred and fifty!). However, the Secretary (etc etc) is undaunted and plans for the future are well in hand. Seventeen of us, under the leadership of our President, Brigadier Barratt, will make our Annual Pilgrimage to the Birmingham Annual Dinner where we look „ forward to a good evening in the Wilkinson Room of the United Services_ Club and we are placating the ladies by taking them to a Dinner/ Dance at The Radbrooke Hall Hotel, Shrewsbury a fact which has also pleased our Shrewsbury members, fifty one have already booked and we will give you a report on the success. Our Remembrance Sunday Service and Parade looks Like being better than ever this year on the Sth November when Venning Barracks will have the patter of feet from male and female contingents of the Garrison, 52 Company RAOQV), male and female sections of the British Legion, followed by our Branch Stalwarts and members of other Associations. We are already assured of the band so come on all you old soldiers—- dust your medals off! We will report this effort in a future issue. Best regards to all our many friends and good luck to the stalwarts in their endeavours to start the Derby Branch—we wish them welt! A Lance Corporal Gary O'Neill and Corporal Mick Hammond singing 11 I am H - A - P - P - Y " during rhe recent JNCO Cadre. _ QUESTION OF PROOF EVERY effort is made, with a staff of one, to keep mistakes out of your GAZETTE, few get through and the occasion is always the subject of quite a post mortem. During the preparation of each issue, many mistakes in copy are edited out—followed by the further correction of printing errors at the proof and page proof stage. There are somewhere around fifty thousand words in each GAZETTE so it is quite a task! Where we cannot win, however hard we try, is when names etc are quoted incorrectly in the text of contributions— a howler to those in the know—with the obvious assumption t o the reader that it is T H E GAZETTE, and not the contributor, that has got it wrong. So Du pleese cheque yore copi beef or u cend hit two uss. 223 — |
| Book number | R0250 |