RAOC Gazette - page 105
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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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Lance Corporal Harris leaves us this month on posting to Headquarters BAOR, our congratulations on his promotion to Corporal and best wishes in his new post. who is both younger and better looking than Vic could hope to be. Finally we must mention the retirement of WOl Dennis Bradley, the WOIC Stores Section at the Headquarters Engineer Resources Workshop, at Long Marston: Senior Warrant Officer of the Army. We wish both him and his wife Barbara well in civilian life and hope that his children's careers, Linda who is an Air Hostess with British Airways, Christopher who manages the NAAFf shop at 3 BAPD, and Michael who is still at home, are as successful as he has been. South West District A WARM start to the summer heralds the annual migration of office staff and there has been a very noticeable 'thinning o u t ' in the Headquarters. Those of you who know Captain John Simpson will be pleased to hear that he and his family are happily settled in South Africa. He had developed a very Africaans drawl prior to his departure. Major Tony Beaumont has been going about with his arm elevated, not a fascist salute we are told—but we do wonder how he cut his wrist whilst tending tomato plants. Congratulations to Mr Cyril Dunnett of the Training Materiel Park in Taunton on his well deserved C-in-Cs Com- mendation. Fireman R. G. (Jossa) Jones of the Army Fire Brigade at Tidworth received his Fire Brigade Long Service and Good Conduct Medal from the CRAOC, Colonel Harverson on 26th June. Fireman Jones who lives in Durrington, joined the Army Fire Service at Bulford in January 1949 after war service in the Royal Navy, and retires in July. North East District —i A DEATHLY HUSH sits upon the Head- quarters broken only by the scratch of a broken quill as your correspondent makes a last minute effort to meet the editor's deadline. This quiet is almost entirely due to the absence of our Very Senior Major who is desperately trying to pack thirty five years accumulated leave into his last few months of service. At the present rate he should just about manage it. Our welcome to Lieutenant Colonel Morton, who has taken over the reins at OSU Catterick and to Captain Ian Glendenning who is joining the Accommodation Services Unit. Both have come from tours in Germany so we will have to watch carefully for withdrawal symptoms, The ' Farewell of the Month * goes to Major Rodney Brown whom we are returning to West Midland District after a short loan. He leaves us just as the restructuring plans for SO Ord- nance Support Battalion (V) where he has been acting as Second- in-Command come firm. The Battalion had a most successful Summer Camp at Browndown Camp and we are told that all the Warrant Officers discovered a penchant for swimming. The RSM swore blind that the young ladies on the beach trying for an all over tan had nothing to do with it. The Battalion was visited at Camp by their Colonel Com- mandant, Major General John Stanyer, accompanied by the Chief Ordnance Officer UKLF, Brigadier Charles Smith. The high standard achieved by the recruits in a very short time was particularly impressive and the Unit instructors are to be con- gratulated. Fireman Jossa Jones of the Army Fire Brigade at Tidworth receives his Long Service Medal from Colonel Harverson. We say hail and farewell to members of the Headquarters listed below and wish them all well for the future. Arrivals: Lieutenant Colonel Ian Moss, Major Ted Gibson, W 2 Bill Squire and W 2 Ted Jones. Departures: Major Phillip Lawson, W 2 John Walton and Sergeant George Mathers. West Midland District IT has been a busy month. Our new CRAOC L i e u t e n a n t C o l o n e l David Witting, spent two days in the office and then shot off in a variety of cars, around the Units in the District He caused con- sternation in one Unit when he arrived before the letter announcing his impend- ing visit. The S03 now owes CRAOC large quantities of whisky for that error. The S03, Captain Jim Morgan has also settled in. He con- siders that his new job is ' er Different' from BAOR field force. Major Arthur Gaiger keeps disappearing on various interviews, he says. Our DO WO, WOl Bob White, continues to discuss, with all and sundry, the relative advantages of live- stock farming over arable crops. While W 2 Roy Jones, the ROWO, arrives square eyed to work each morning after the orgy of World Cup football. The Chief Clerk, Staff Sergeant Ray has kept such, a low profile no-one has seen him for six weeks. This month we have said farewell to Vic Gregory our POL Clerk who has gone on to higher things as an EO in DSM at Donnington and we welcome in his place Mrs Joyce Stubbs - Brigadier Smith talks to recruits of 5 8 Company, 5 Ordnance Support Battalion (V) at Browndown, Private Smith in the foreground. Back at the ranch, we had a visit from Colonel Tony Newnham, Colonel Ord 2 Headquarters DGOS and gave him a. one day whistle stop tour of some of our installations. We never appreciated the extent of his influence until we noticed the sun shining at Barlow! 10 Ordnance Support Battalion WHILST June can boast the longest day, our boast is that we have had no fewer than seven Long Service and Good Conduct Medals presented recently. W 2 Christopher Manning's Long Service and Good Conduct Medal was presented by the GOC South West District. Messrs Rose, Red fern, White, Parsons and Tanner were presented with their medals by our Com- 80 |
| Book number | R0247 |