RAOC Gazette - page 189
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| Corps | RAOC |
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| Full title | RAOC Gazette |
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| Publication date | 1978 |
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| Colour | No |
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| Early date | 1978 |
| Late date | 1978 |
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very bored if it wasn't for the very noble efforts of Units in the Hohne Station. Under the guidance of SSO Hohne Units are organising various activities to keep the children occupied, our own Depot Superintendent W02 Jim Grant is teaching children of various ages how to fish and the OC, Major Michael Cutchey with his stable staff, are teaching would-be Harvey Smiths which end of the horse is which. Welcome Sergeant Keith Marshall and family from Devizes and Corporal Pete Waddington also from Devizes, they both say the LOA is better here! Congratulations to Corporal Charlie Cannings on his pro- motion to Sergeant, he was heard to say it would take him twelve months to make up the cost of the celebration. 2nd Armoured Division • • • i ^ ^ B ^ H THE preparation for, and the execution ^B^^^^BT^H of Exercise Summer Sales has dominated lne past m o n t n o r so a n d ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ R r ^ l contrary to the Hr^^^^^3H forecasts made by some, it was both busy ^l^^^k^^B^H and enjoyable. Perhaps we have the P^V^^^^^H weather to thank for much of the success I A K ^ ^ V J ^ I we experienced. For our new S02 Maint, ^ V ^ ^ l V J Major Alan Jamieson, it was a baptism ^^hg^^^^^^H into the ritual workings of Log Head- ^^^^^^^^^^^ quarters; he may well have felt that it was by total immersion (in the deep end, that is). However, he finished the exercise spouting jargon like a seasoned cam- paigner! As usual,'the exercise provided a little light relief by allow- ing us to chuckle at the misfortunes of others. This time the Chief Clerk, W02 Dave Allport, found himself the constant centre of unwanted attention. He started by wrenching the gear- stick of his Land Rover right off its associated gearbox before we had even reached our first location. He followed this by an unsuccessful attempt at writing off his vehicle with the aid of a tree, and completed his hat-trick by breaking down with the ops trailer in tow. Redemption came with the appearance of a huge and expertly decorated cake for CRAOCs birthday on Day 5. It was delicious! Exercise Summer Sales also saw the appearance of Sergeant Paul Dyson, the Chief Clerk of our resident Signals Squadron. He says he enjoyed the break, and can now add teleprinter operator to his list of occupations. The recent bombing incidents in BAOR allowed us to show everyone who happens to read the local newspaper how members of the RAOC defend barrack areas. The photograph of Lance Corporal Charlie Welbourn is reproduced by kind permission of the Lubbecke Tagebiatt. However, Corporal Dennis Edmunds assures us that, had the photograph been taken a few seconds earlier, it would have shown an entirely different situation; he has drawn a cartoon to illustrate his point. technically left us to be FAMTO Sergeant at Headquarters Squadron, but in reality is still part of RAOC in Lubbecke, However, we have to say farewell to W02 Wally Upton, and also to his wife Jane who has been a typist in the Branch for the last two years. Thank you for all your hard work, Jane, and when you've typed these notes, please report to the Chief Clerks office, where there should be a party waiting STORES PLATOON 12 ARMOURED WORKSHOP DEAR MUM,—We had one of our platoon socials last week- end and just as we got going with the merriment our OC, Captain Mike Roycroft, had to say goodbye to two long standing, or should that be long suffering, members of the platoon. Private Haggis Harris who is going out and Private Geordie Knight who is posted to Bracht. We all wish them both the best of luck, Sergeant Norman Davison has been doing Mess Caterer in the Sergeants Mess; I was surprised when I heard it had nothing to do with cooking! Still, he says he is quite happy having managed to get himself selected for the RAOC BAOR cricket team to go to Berlin. With the cricket season still very much on the go we have a number of the lads playing in the Workshop side, they are Privates John Logan, Dave Tressler and Dave Boden. On top of all that we have the football season looming up and some of our lads, Corporal Colin Jones, Privates Dave Tressler and Billy Williamson have had their names put forward for the RAOC BAOR trials. We hope they get selected. Sergeant Jim Munday is working hard to get an Orien- teering team going, he keeps disappearing saying he is going training but we do wonder. He thinks he should have a team from the Workshop soon and has managed to persuade Lance Corporal Taffy Walsh to join the team- In spite of it looking as though we do nothing but sport, we are in fact working hard preparing for two Exercises Certain Shield and Keystone Charlie and that keeps us all very busy, Your Son Charlie. 5 Field Force ^ ^ ^ ORDNANCE ^ • J * J ^ ^ _ COMPANY ^^BmunL^^H^^^^^^ ON our return from H H B ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Vogelsang the Unit ^H0K9^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ exercised its proclivity ^VSjiS^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ and an • E n ^ E ^ game of Soft Ball was Kfi^gS-^^^^ played (with a little ^ ^ ^ ^ help from the local American populace). It was sportingly ended in a draw, though the Storeshed is still trying to claim victory over the combined efforts of the MT and Orderly Room. We all realise now why Sunray wanted specifically to play Soft Ball, and not a decent game like rugby (even though it is out of season), he was the only member of both teams to make a clear round! Following an extremely hot afternoon's play we held a ' Cookout * at Winterboume Barracks, home of 87 Supply Depot (thank you gentlemen), where we erected all kinds of wierd and wonderful things. Thank you to the hoards who helped, also special thanks to W02 Paddy Starrett, Lance Corporals Alan Ashcroft and ' Ben' Gunn and Private Ray Toplass for their assistance in Lance Corporal Wefbourn guards the gate—or does he? Not what our cartoonist Corporal Dennis Edmunds thinks! We welcome this month W02 Peter Jackson and Lance Corporal Chris Rhodes on their arrivals from the Hebrides and Deepcut respectively. Congratulations go to WO I Alan Pedley and Sergeant John Scott on their promotions. John has — 1 J |
| Book number | R0247 |