RAOC Gazette - page 144
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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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Photo The Ormskirk Advertiser. COO, UKLF, Brigadier Smith, presents the Imperial Service Medal to Mr Tom Baker who had served at Burscough for twenty six years. Afso present in the picture are the OC Major Frank Raine and the CRAOC North West District Lieutenant Colonel Bob Bogan. Scotland. Our best wishes to you Jim. Mr Dennis Shotton as the SSO at Burscough is our continuity man in the Depot. Our list of personalities ends with our man in Liverpool: braving the concrete jungle and speaking scouse is Major Bert Gracie who commands the Stores Section of 42 Command Workshop. He likes it so much that he has just asked for an extension. Living as we do in the wet and woolly north we seldom see many visitors. However, COO UKLF Brigadier Smith visited us recently and made a lightning tour of the District. In the space of a few hours he managed to find the time to present medals to three REME NCOs at Deysbrook and one to a member of the civilian staff at Burscough. STORES SECTION 70 AIRCRAFT WORKSHOP CORPORAL GREEN'S strength is not what it was, having lost two stone in weight. For those wanting to know how he did il so they can do the same, Corporal Green's weight went down by having appendicitis in Belize and an operation/ convalescence in Miami. Perhaps a diet would have been easier, especially as we have just received his hospital bill for £1,500 for ten days stay! Corporal Owen Yearwood is in Canada with 656 Squadron A AC, Corporal Bob Craister has returned from Sardinia having exercised with the Royal Marines or 'booties' as he tells us nearly every day. Lance Corporal Terry Jeffries is back from a BAOR exercise with bottles and packets of instant popularity. For a small Stores Section our social life is excellent, in fact, our social life seems to attract honorary members of the Stores Section from other Units in Middle Wallop, Staff Sergeant Jim Penny is our local Lew Grade, having organised outings to London in March, Hampton Court and Chessington in May and Weymouth in June. The next trip is to Brighton. A games evening was organised by Staff Sergeant Penny against the ACC here at Middle Wallop. Thanks to Corporal McKimm's sober mathematics, we won. Until Corporal Mc- Kimm's intervention, the score at the end of an excellent evening seemed to be the result of democratic power sharing rather than mathematically exact. A few weeks previously the Stores Section held a disco dance to say farewell to WOsl Alan Dickson and Brian Maynard. New arrivals are WOl Beaton, W02 Green, Staff Sergeant Kelly, Sergeants Wallis and Coelho and Corporals Jory and Eustace. We congratulate Corporal Jory on his BAOR Corps Colours for rugby. On the sporting side, Sergeant Wallis is playing for the AAC Centre at squash, Lance Corporal Eustace, hockey, and Private Vaissiere, tennis. Commando Ordnance Squadron Commando Logistic Regiment A LONG time since we made a contri- bution to TUE GAZETTE but there has been so much activity, that it is only now (July) that the Commando's ability to do 'joined up writing' can be tested. (It certainly isn't in the syllabus at CTCRM Lympstone). To catch up, albeit briefly, the following notes are in chronological order and are based on fact. March, Early in the year rugby claimed the spare time of several Squadron members. Lance Corporal Cooper and Private Phelps both played for the Regiment and Devonport Services Rugby Club. Private Phelps was also selected for the Corps team. To cap it all the inimitable WO 1 " Tug ' Wilson played for the Army, captained the Corps side, and was a member of Devon- port Services rugby club selection committee. Not bad for an old man! April. The first three weeks of April were tremendous; we all went on ' block' leave. Lieutenant Colonel Ellis, the Deputy Inspector carried out our Technical Inspection. Not that we were dreading it, but living down here at the ' end of the civilized world' we rarely get RAOC official visitors, especially technical ones (ie people who definitely can do joined up writing) so we were slightly apprehensive. In the event the visit was enjoyable. The Deputy Inspector did not say anything too detrimental and his criticisms were constructive. Second Lieutenant Bridges, WOl Wilson and Private Phelps played in the Regimental team which won the Royal Marines Easterbrook Bowl seven-a-side competition (Interesting to note that ' Tug' Wilson had ' retired * from play- ing rugby three weeks previously.) May. The Regimental Training session was extremely successful for the Squadron's point of view; the supreme accolade was that an RAOC section won the inter-squadron * best section * shoot. During the _ Regimental swimming contest we discovered that our swimming prowess is not what it used to be, though the OC did win the Veterans Race and Captain Roy Southworth smashed all opposition in the two hundred metre free style. Private Fleming won everything he could enter. Overall, Workshop Squadron were too strong for us and we finished second. June. Once again we won the Regimental Athletics with an almost embarrassing number of * firsts,' particularly in the track group events. (We do actually issue stores as well!) Sadly we were unable to send a full team to Travers Clarke this year, but we did send Private Phillips who won the two Eastern District OUR congratulations to Captain Don Young on being selected for the Corps Tennis Team and on winning. Meanwhile back in the office Mr Spence has handed over to Mr John Manning, who is our new OIC Office Management in the ASU. Mr Brian Bastick, one of our men in the North, is in hospital, but it is very pleasant to be able to report that his operation was successful and that he is well on the way to recovery. W02 Swann arrived in the Headquarters in July and has taken up his appointment of ROWO, complete with travel claim forms. We hope that he enjoys his stay here. We would also like to extend a very warm welcome to Lieutenant Colonel Ellis who has taken over as CRAOC. To Lieutenant Colonel Venning and WOl Benton and their families we offer our very best wishes for a happy and prosperous future as civilians. Mr Benton stays in Colchester as a Stores Manager with Texas (The Big One) Warehouses. The CRAOC after a visit to Guild- hall to become a Freeman of the City of London, has been appointed Bursar of the City of London Boys School, with an office overlooking the Thames. Finally congratulations to WOl Hubbard on his promotion and a posting to Belgium, Army Air Corps HQ DAAC ORD (AIR) BRANCH A NUMBER of changes have taken place since our last contribution to THE GAZETTE. Appointments have changed and the present incumbents are as follows: SOI ORD (Air) Lieutenant Colonel J. Marsden, S02 ORD (Air) Major M, Lacy, Major N. H. De Foubert and Major Bill Rattray (Retd), WOl ORD (Air) Conductor Hugh Penman, WO Progression W02 Ray Candlin and Corporal Jeannie Hogan WRAC in the Admin Office. t 114 |
| Book number | R0247 |