RAOC Gazette - page 327
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| Corps | RAOC |
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| Full title | RAOC Gazette |
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| Publication date | 1981 |
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| Early date | 1981 |
| Late date | 1981 |
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.• mie by Lieutenant Michael Lacis assisted by Corporal \ > and Privates EtHerington and Bebbinglon. In Ihe best of in^raUation this was named the McCormaek Suspen- :. Bridge. However constant rain swelled the river and al- sl0 l i H >jyh the bridge remained intact, as much water passed over j ( js\inder. It was thus renamed Lacis Holly, Private Andy Love celebrated his twenty first birthday in a The day was saved by the OC who a ild and draughty barn. nipped home for a cake, a bottle of wine and a hot bath. private Milligan ACC also rose to the occasion and provided a n individual cake complete with candle. Private Dobson is now recovering from his broken neck in p \ i H Iserlohn and should make a full recovery. We offer our olences to Mrs Beattie. wife of our ACC Sergeant whose • ,r died whilst on holiday in Paderborn. On a happier note we congratulate Private Ray Cooksley on die arrival of a little Ray Cooksley and Privates Fox and Perira on the arrival of a stripe a piece, 44 HP COMPANY. It has been a busy month for the Company, It started with the outloading of two thousand live hundred tons of simmo to Red Claymore, which went well, due mainly to the large meals we all ate thanks to the kind donations from * Bullah Land/ (the CSM is still trying to work out why his chickens lay • :<. eggs than everybody else's) and Private Brown who has two proposals of marriage after his cooking, but is waiting 10 someone with money. On the rugby front, training goes well if not a little pain- full v\ We are successfully through the first round of CCRAOC Cup winning sixty eight to four over Richmond Associates, W Company team led by the CQMS Staff Sergeant Bill Wreyford performed very well in the inter company March Competition and had a comfortable win. The Training Officer Second Lieutenant Henry Hirst has uone off on a swan (Border Patrol) for a few days, with a new -• -ret weapon to baffle the East Germans. The OCs new pride and joy his Mini Metro has a little problem with oil just after one week, he should have followed the rest of the Company's example! 49 RP COMPANY. We are preparing for our exercise season once more, with soldiers leaving camp for one exercise or an- other. Sergeant Coffils is about to taste the delights of his first C Sups exercise while Corporal Ridley is under no illusions: as he puts it he will 'sort them out.* W02 Brooks also dis- appeared into the back of beyond, but not before Lance ( orporal Thompson and Craftsman Greenbank used their ; pertise to sort out a brake problem on a tasker trailer. One i..at did not make the start line! Petroleum Platoon (purveyors of black gold) also ventured out and Staff Sergeant Ruddy, prior to deployment, was seen in a happy frame of mind leap- ing from FFR Land Rover to anolher for some reason shouting *• Hello, 1 ' '* Hello." Incidentally the two petroleum platoon guinea pigs, Privates Evans and Miller, have returned refreshed and degassed, from Porton Down, Lance Corporal Smith our RP stalwart has vanished from Ihe unit guardroom (on course!) but no problem, he has been \ placed by Lance Corporal Hawkins, Privates Peebles, Mason id Hitchins, Sergeant Dymond has returned (again!), after ,-ading the BMH Rinteln rock climbing novices on an ex- pedition in Norway. Now we know how Captain Hazlewood At work on fhe pipeline. managed to borrow the BMH Rinteln rugby pitch on long loan. Incidentally, we recently beat 1st Armoured Division Ordnance Company ai rugby. The OC decided to walk from Paderborn to Nichcim (just to show the flag!), with 43 RP Company, while the unit speed marching team consisting of Lieutenant Lilly- stone, Sergeant Dymond, Corporal Clarke, Lance Corporals Wallace, Hardie and Evans and Privates Gillies and Hitchins managed the same route (but faster!), finishing second in an inter company marching competition. Well done 43 for organising 4 such a super day and congratulations to our early risers' marching team, for getting such a good result Rumour has it, that at the end of the competition, a rose bowl was used as a collecting receptacle to pay for the beer! Staff Sergeant WUks is all up m the air these days, after taking a party of soldiers on helicopter handling. He was heard to mutter during the train- ing, " What a lot of fuss about nothing, it's only a helicopter"! There is a moral there somewhere. Well that must be it, except that we have kept the * goodies * to the last. Congratulations on the provisional selection for promotion of: A/Corporals Gare, Green and Preston, Lance Corporals Cox, Moseley and Seggie, A/Lance Corporals Hawkins and Mills, Privates Stepin and Wells. Welcome to: Lance Corporals Moseley and Plunkett and Private Sinclair. Farewell to: Sergeant Epton, Lance Corporals Baker and Bird, Private Broomfield and Craftsman Hooper. Congratulations to Private and Mrs McMahon on the birth of their son Shane, and to Lance Corporals Duncan and Pettitt on their recent promotions. RAOC Cyprus |<^-<^_>t HEADQUARTERS RAOC EPISKOPI \ w I THE person who said a Cyprus posting is an 1 JE I ideal opportunity to get away from it all and \ ^S&i/ffi / have a good rest, was clearly a comedian I ^HVixlIHr Summer Camp has come and gone and Colonel wtife l Y Paviour (AAG (AG9)) has returned to UK. ^ ^ ^ i ^ y after a very successful visit. Various other ^^E^F summer activities were over, the tempo slowing ^^^r down and everyone looking forward to a quiet ^ period. The CRAOC, Lieutenant Colonel Field even managed to squeeze in some leave, although he claims he cannot remember it! However, due to developments at home it all changed, we were notified that the RAOC Staff Band was now coming to Cyprus early for a three week tour, instead of March 1982. The tour was to coincide with the visit to Cyprus of Major General Stanyer our Representative Colonel Commandant at the same time the 21C Major Lance was sent to Paris on a six weefes Course. Headquarters RAOC were back into gear and the Ad- jutant searched desperately in his office for his special pro- gramme writing pen. Very soon a comprehensive programme of venues had been arranged for the band and they duly arrived to begin their tour. The tour was a great success, with the climax of the visit a concert in the Curium Amphitheatre attended by a near capacity and very enthusiastic audience, all of whom thoroughly enjoyed the varied musical programme which was presented. The Director of Music, Captain Rodney Parker, and all members of the band are to be congratulated for their work during the tour. Undoubtedly the major visit to RAOC Cyprus in 1981 was that of our Representative Colonel Commandant. The General was accompanied by Mrs Stanyer and, after a short stay in Larnaca, embarked upon their official visit to RAOC units in Cyprus. The programme was arranged so as to allow the General to meet as many RAOC personnel on the island as possible, including RAOC soldiers serving with the United Nations in Nicosia. Mrs Stanyer was also given the opportunity to meet many of the soldiers' wives and also visit the RAOC Bakery at Dhekelia. The RAOC Cyprus annual Cocktail Party provided an ideal opportunity for General and Mrs Stanyer to meet many of the officers and their wives based in Cyprus from both the Army and the RAF. After the cocktail party the Officers took General and Mrs Stanyer to the Eagles Nest, a local tavern at nearby Pissouri, for supper. General and Mrs Stanyer ended their stay in Cyprus by attending, as guests of honour, the Curium Concert given by the RAOC Staff Band. We all enjoyed the visit which was a great success both within and outside the Corps, Even in early October it is still very warm, and we were grateful to both General and Mrs Stanyer for taking on a full and sometimes exacting programme so readily. 273 — |
| Book number | R0250 |