RAOC Gazette - page 184
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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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| Early date | 1978 |
| Late date | 1978 |
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vast, and we bade him a fond farewell, together with Corporal ^ou^hbn who goes out on redundancy and Lance Corporal vU'C-*- w n o s e nine years t have expired. - 'nlike our hang gliding experts [see Far the Record). Private \&s. v tried flying without a kite, when falling off the side of a 432. He landed painfully on his rear and is to be seen hobbling about with what seems to be a large cushion strapped to his derrierc and a pained expression on his face. He didn't seem l D be amused at the offer of a loan of a parachute. THE VSD MOENCHENCLADBACH S W I M M I N G BAOR RHINE AREA WINNERS 1973 Sport has been mainly cricket. The Station team beat 2 ADOC in the DOS BAOR Knock Out Cup by five wickets. 2 ADOC were all out for one hundred and sixteen and Sergeant Dave Groves of Wulfen Station took three for twenty four. The Station then went in to bat making one hundred and twenty for five with Private Danny Donaldson making forty two and Lieutenant Colonel Bernard Lane twenty eight. Well sorry to be so short. Have some milk cartons to defuse! (It is regretted that the photographs arrived too late for publication—Editor.) TEAM RAOC Corps Troops HEADQUARTERS RAOC ONE cannot accuse this Headquarters of not being flexible, in fact we can be compared with a piece of elastic- This statement is justified because on the late 1 (BR) Corps CPX—namely 1 Summer Sales,' we deployed in an FXT mode, a CPX mode, managed to man the new Cell in Hannover, left a rear party in Bielefeld and stilt sent personnel on leave. Not bad going with an establishment of thirteen military. How do we do it? Well that's an in-house secret, ask for a posting to Head- quarters RAOC Corps Troops BAOR, that's our new title from about now, or sometime—in fact I'm sure you will find out before we do 1 Back row left to right: Lance Corporal Hughes, Private Gemie, M 'or Butterworth, Lance Corporal Mills, Lance Corporal Crawford. Front row left to right: Private Willcocks, Corporal McBurnie, Commanding Officer, Corporal Campbell (team captain), Private Adamson. Not available for the photograph Staff Sergeant Keelor and Staff Sergeant Davis. STORES SUB-DEPOT DULMEN THE patter of tiny feet was heard reverberating around the Depot as the Combined Cadet Force from Windsor Boys School enjoyed their annual summer camp. The culmination of the t;a r 7ip was a concerted night attack on a platoon deployed from &i-. Depot. An honourable armistice was signed at the cessation of hostilities. There were festive scenes in the Sergeants Mess, as Major General Stanyer, on his visit to the Depot, presented Long Service and Good Conduct Medals to WOl Milroy, WOs2 Stokes and Lear, Sergeants Helm, Carroll and White. Festivities carried on well into the night The dreaded word BFT has been on every ones lips and during the month ninety four per cent of those soldiers required to take the test passed. The ' Brendan Foster * of SSD Dulmen Corporal Binks recently won the five thousand and ten thousand sr^tres at the RAOC BAOR championships and to cap a fine sporting month Sergeant Cullen and Corporal Resales success- fully completed the Nijmegen marches. Depot re-organisation is well under way and the Raised Storage Area Erection Team ably led by Captain J. E. McAlpine- Dale is performing wonders. Wulfen Station %g\ THE rains of early summer are only but ^JMSRN a bad memory; skins now range from jjrjgKjHBJK an expensive Spanish brown to medium Tj^MH^^H or bright pink. Consequently Station life jQjT^-*---^H^EK has somewhat slowed down except for tne ^^^j^BnWk Youth Club which has naturally been m ^KHnQm full swing. Staff Sergeants Stu Veazey j^m^fflfmUR and John Simpson the Youth Leaders, 't^^nUap have not only been kept extremely busy ^KMHy but have found time to raise over DM900 ' " " on a sponsored swim. The cash will go pertly towards the new club premises. We have had the pleasure of hosting Major General Guy, Chief of Staff BAOR; he took the opportunity to present Long Service and Good Conduct Medals to Staff Sergeant Noddy Nagle and to Sergeant Peter Lee. Corporal Dodds and the Headquarters RAOC Office Truck on Exercise Summer Sales. We bid a fond farewell to Captain David Griffiths who was posted to Headquarters 1 (BR) Corps and stays in BAOR— lucky him and to W 2 Pat O'Neill. We welcome to our abode Captain Terry Wood, the new Adjutant and W02 Ray Trebble, WOIC Control, and hope they enjoy their tours and adapt to the new environment. STORES PLATOON CORPS TROOPS WORKSHOP THE highlight of the month has been the return of the RAOC personnel who were with the Northern Ireland Roulement Workshop. These were; —Captain Lennox MacEwan, Corporals Taff Blyth and Nick Nicholls, Lance Corporals 'Brum* Evans, and Mick Leigh, Privates Bill Ryan, Dave Stonham and Boy David. Welcome back lads, we're sure your war stories should keep us going for the next ten exercises. W 2 Hinson and Sergeant Render have been on holiday to Italy this year, we who were left behind fancied a game of follow the leader but we couldn't decide who H E was, so we scrapped that idea!! Congratulations to Mrs Jill Leefarr (wife of our intrepid Terry) who passed the BFG driving test; trouble is, Terry's try- ing to get the car backloaded to Yokohama for the spare parts most of the time so she'll be lucky to get a drive. Hot news from the press is that Private Pogo Pratt has passed HGV2, and Privates Daddy Murphy and * Volkswagen Cruncher' MacGregor are slowly going dizzy round the camp circuit, one* more lads! Finally we are undergoing rugby and volleyball training for the Unit potted sports under the eagle eyes of Corporal John Sim and Private Jock Bruce. Casualties to date are Mick Wilson and Steve Butcher, |
| Book number | R0247 |