RAOC Gazette - page 125
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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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&ecorti A MATTER OF DEGREE COLONEL JOHN SKINNER recently received the degree of Bachelor of Letters at Oxford University. The photograph with his wife Sonia, was taken after the colourful and traditional ceremony in the Sheldonian, where military uniform is seldom seen. John was selected to take up a Defence Fellowship at Oxford in 1975 and spent a year as a resident member of The Queen's College—an institution of learning founded as long ago as 1340, Those who listened to his talk at the 1976 Study Period or dined as his guest at the l Top Table ' at Queen's will know that his memorable year there was enjoyable—as wel] as instructive and industrious. His studies concentrated upon the organisational structure of land forces and he submitted a thesis to the Ministry of Defence early in 1977. In this he described how the organisation of NATO and, in particular, the Belgian, British, Dutch and German contingents of Northern Army Group had evolved, before developing some concepts for the future structure of operational command, reinforcement and logistic support. This resulted in the military qualification of *" Defence Fellow/ Photo Captain M. Parsons. To be Commandant of the Army School of Physical Training. Physical training and of course sport, is not new to Norman Bruce. In his early days, as a National Serviceman, he was an assistant physical training instructor at 2 Training Battalion. Well known in sporting circles he holds thirty one rugger caps for Scotland and is Vice President of the Hampshire Rugby Union and a selector and a Vice President of the Army Rugby Union. Those who have served with him will well know that he has always been extremely keen on fitness. We wish him well. ON BURBERRY RECALLED A VISIT TO HMS DOLPHIN MEMBERS of COD Chilwell and the Nottingham Police recently visited the RN Submarine School, HMS Dolphin. The visit had been arranged by Lieutenant Vic Bird RN who led the Naval Fire Team located at Chilwell during Operation Burberry and was in appreciation of the hospitality shown, by the Unit The visit began with a trip in the Submarine One Man Control Simulator, a sophisticated piece of equipment which Photo B. J\ Harris, Oxford. However, his work did not end there for he was en- couraged to convert his MOD thesis to the form required for an academic submission. This took a further six months of evening and week-end work, with a ' viva' in March of this year, followed by the award of his Oxford degree. Having talked to John, T know that he would wish me to add how grateful he is to Professor Michael Howard for supervising his research and writing, and to Lord Blake and the Governing Body of The Queen's College for making him so welcome. THE CAP FITS LIEUTENANT COLONEL N, S. BRUCE is to become the Commandant Army School of Physical Training and Assistant Commandant Army Physical Training Corps in December. He is the first RAOC Officer to hold this appointment. Lieutenant Bird RN welcoming aboard H M S Grampus, CPO Hannigan, Major T i m Lane, Lieutenant M i k e Murphy* W O l Tom O'Grady, Sergeant M i k e Strong, Captain John Schreuder, W O l Pete Bath and PC Peter Metcalf. |
| Book number | R0247 |