RAOC Gazette - page 142
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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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Headquarters Scotland JULY has arrived and wilh it the return of our ROWO, Ken Marchant from the rigours of Belize where he has been on detached duty for the past four months; the change in climate even in July, was like coming back to the Arctic Circle. Our new S03 Materiel Major Jim Wright (Retd) has at last arrived fresh from his resettlement leave ex-OSU Bur- scough, welcome Jim and we hope you soon find your new house. The Chief Clerk, Staff Sergeant ft >;?S'i%i:::^^S^ftW: S^^:•^^^r•y'M !•yf':•y•: :w-:w:tfS^:y:.SjK-x:S«rt«c^*w>*SK* Wooiley, has been seen walking back home in the evenings whispering something about ERSP and having his KD clothing freshly starched. Not to worry Staff it may never happen, The CRAOC, Lieutenant Colonel Connolly, is off to BAOR to visit 51 Company TAVR who are at Camp in Bielefeld this year—no doubt we shall see on his return the familiar sight of the King Edward Cigar smoke drifting down the corridor. : Army Information Services Northern Ireland. : : SATO DEPARTMENT RA RANGE MESSAGE to the rest of the world. What is very long, heavy and obsolete and comes in wooden boxes. Well you may ask— we did. Luckily someone who could read markings came up with the answer—Honest John. Four of them arrived on the ' mail' boat with the notices ' Do not return to sender/ So armed with crow bar. sledge hammer and a team of gunners, Staff Sergeant John Wiggell set about building a rocket. Luckily it actually went down the range in the proper direction, leaving behind the launcher (British, American and Canadian gunners please note). Brigadier Smith GM, COO UKLF and Lieutenant Colonel Connolly, CRAOC Scotland, came north to see us and were guests at an RAOC Association buffet. The buffet was also an occasion to say farewell to WOs2 Pete Jackson and Arthur Burns. ' Q ' Burns however is still with us after a short exten- sion of tour and is currently cursing Records and building a raft of pallet wood! Our next visitor was DLSA himself, Brigadier Cowdry, who had a look round SATO Department and the Photographic Section. To cap the occasion (ballistic cap?) there was a Range Barbecue where the SATO Major Scourfield-Evans presented DLSA with a Range plaque. If any of our regular readers are wondering what has happened to Sergeant Keith Burton it must be put on record that he has finally been hooked and reeled on the matrimonial line. We all wish him and his wife, Wendy the very best for the future. TTiis is the voice from the wilderness signing off. Anyone finding the message please return the bottle, we need the deposit. The Quartermaster General Sir Patrick Howard-Dobson presenting Staff Sergeant John Bishop with his Long Service and Cood Conduct Medal outside the Headquarters of the Supply Sub-Depot. Frend has spent considerable time building some contraption outside FDS which appears to be a pigeon loft. He has six pigeons in -it, going on nine, as three eggs have been laid so far. All ranks of the Supply Sub-Depot and a few selected guests sat down to a sumptuous Ladies Dinner Night in the Wardroom Club. It was not, as some people suspect, a wel- come home party for Staff Sergeant John Bishop who has been away on numerous courses, but the beginning of the Supply Sub-Depofs summer activities. The die hards did not even see the passing of the night as dawn had broken when they eventually left. In; Staff Sergeant Collins, Corporal Sheehan. Out: Staff Sergeant Watson, Corporals Diskin and Kendall and Lance Corporal Bayley. United Kingdom Land Forces ORDNANCE BRANCH THERE is not a vast amount to report this month from the Branch except to state that the two * movers * of the month have been Major Alan Pollard and Major John Evans. Major Alan Pollard visited BAOR in June to plan TAVR training with Head- quarters BAOR (Ord), 1 (BR) Corps Stores Company, 154 FAD, and 3 BAPD. Major John Evans, our * membre d'honneur' of the Old Comrades Association of the ' o n e and only' Legion fitrangere visited Morocco (Rabat), Tunisia (Tunis) and London and Aldershot as escorting officer for ' l a Republique Unie de Cameroun,' at the BAEE Exhibition, in his capacity as interpreter in French and German. Rumours that he might visit the Lebanon in the near future are all true. He is shortly to act as escorting officer to the British, German and French Defence Ministers at Ditchley Park, followed by another trip to Tunisia, and a trip to Germany to interpret for RMA Sandhurst at the battlefield tour studying the Remagen Bridge crossing* He also works, in the meantime, and quite vociferously may I add, as the S02 (Materiel) in Ordnance Branch, Headquarters UKLF. We say welcome to Private Martyn Wright, Royal Regi- ment of Wales, on transfer to the RAOC as a staff clerk and farewell to our UKLF Senior Fire Adviser, Mr Bill Rogers— this Mucky arsonist' about to be posted to Liibbecke—lucky ' Brandstifter' that he is—we wish him all the very best in his future appointment Brigadier Smith COO UKLF is presented w i t h a Range Plaque by Major Scourficld-Evans. BEACHLEY OLD BOYS ASSOCIATION ANNUAL REUNION 29th and 30th September, and on 1st October 1978. Particulars and booking forms from Hon. Secretary, BOBA, Army Apprentices College, Chepstow, Gwent NF6 7YG. STORES SECTION REME WING WE recently sent Private Cape well and his wife Gail, packing down to Bicester complete with book on etiquette and camera to see Her Majesty during the Royal visit to Bicester. We don't know if it went to Private Capewell's head or not but he keeps checking the mail and mumbling something to the effect, "Just wait until we are invited to the palace." 1 12 |
| Book number | R0247 |