RAOC Gazette - page 190
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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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iking ihe evening a success. (Congratulations Alan on your 1 sir- - fhc Unit staged a thirty mile (fifty kilometre) run/walk r - ose intending to participate in the one hundred kilometre n walk at the beginning of September, held around the This was found to be useful training and ; ir,ny of Unna, predated by all runners. The Unit has recently helped to sponsor the North Garrison juth Meeting, offering an APC and Signals display for the >unger members of the Garrison to look at and operate. iere were also side stalls, one of which seemed a great fc ccess, Ye Olde Stocks,' where the kitchen scraps were put to >od use as missiles. Well done the prisoners, especially the hiet; Clerk who out-did C/S Gannet who could not quite ornach the affair. Welcome to Private Ian Sharpe and also back from Northern eivind. Corporal Tom Stevenson, Lance Corporal Les Roff and rivate Bill Elkins, STORES SECTION WELCOME back our Northern Ireland contingent who have :cently spent four months with the Roulement Workshop Stores action; they obviously seemed to enjoy themselves out there j was demonstrated by Corporal Bob Beech and Private Alan sseimont who, on their return, caught the first plane to the osta Packet in art endeavour to continue the good times they ad been enjoying! With the new football season just around the corner Staff ergeant Kevin Reardon, currently Assistant Secretary of Area 4 fit tree's, Secretary of the Munster Garrison Minor Units League nd anything else you might care to mention, is frantically ashing around preparing for the big kick off. We are begin- ing to wonder which is more frequent, the telephone bell or is whistle when he gets out onto the pitch. Our congratulations go to our Platoon Commander on two aunts, his recent marriage and his even more recent promotion .. stand up Captain Tony Evans. The big question now, of ourse, is whether to unpack his boxes! We are keeping our n^ers crossed that the stars might leave his eyes for at least le duration of Exercise Griffins Galore. At least for the ext three weeks there is absolutely no danger at all of him ieeping in. The time has come, I'm afraid, to say farewell to two of ur members. Corporals Bob Beech on posting and Alex Clark > ciwie street What a blow, it will be interesting to see just ow long it is before the Junior Ranks Club is forced to close own because of lack of profit. Best wishes to them both. ^e welcome their replacements and hope they enjoy their time ;i:h us, Corporal Povey and Private Goody. 3rd Armoured Division A AL fl& HEADQUARTERS RAOC FRESH from course activity in UK and coarse activity on leave, your regular MJ^^HL scribe returns to the monthly treadmill J^^^^TBL after a break of two editions, wondering ^flHL J ^ ^ U L why no-one seemed to have missed him. ^ffjffiftjfl^^^ The branch Chief Clerk, Sergeant tzJUSU^U^^k Barry Brooks, has been playing cricket with the Regimental team. He helped the earn into the semi-final of the BAOR major Units com- >etition and there helped them out of it It was a very credit- Lb le performance for a newly formed team. The basis upon rtuch to build exists, the cricketers have great hopes for next r ear. The rugby team has begun training for the coming easort with Lieutenant Colonel Cornwell in attendance, He will >e away on posting shortly after the season begins but doubt- ess is preparing to partake of or to start, that game amongst hi United Nations fraternity in Cyprus. Captain Rick Ginn our Adjutant, has just received news >f his posting to Logistic Executive on promotion. The branch ongratulates him on the one hand and sympathizes on the >ther, It is a clever but unclear manpower planning gambit >oes the posting discourage exhuberence on promotion or does he promotion ease the pain of the posting? Replies, on a post- ard please, to AG9. Similarly, the branch offers its congratulations to the >OWO, WOl Hawthorne, on his provisional selection for a Special Regular Commission in the Corps, We are delighted ir.:e he is exactly the sort of person that the Corps needs in to commissioned ranks. We wish him every success in his new appointment. Finally, welcome back to our typing supervisor Ann Garton, vho has just returned from a spell in hospital followed by a A brief moment in C R A O C s command vehicle during his recent exercise for the Ordnance Company Exercise Prop Forward. Left to right: Lieutenant Cofonel Cornwell in his C I role, Major Davies trying to look as if he understood the symbols and W 1 Hawthorne inspecting the Lamp HPP. long convalescence. It is unfortunate that the typists whom she is intended to supervise are both on leave. However, in a way this is a bonus, since she can recover more slowly from the shock of RTU in the present, temporary and relative tran- quillity of the typing pool. ORDNANCE COMPANY SCENE: The OCs office, 3 Armoured Division Ordnance Com- pany. Enter a minion. OC: Ah, there you are. Have a good leave? M: Yes, thank you Sir, fantastic, OC: Good, well Fve got one or two tasks for you this week. First, get the Corps GAZETTE notes ready. Let me just check the diary, ah yes. Did you know that from the 18th to 21st the marching team took part in the Nijmegen Marches? M: No sir, though I had wondered where the name Second Lieutenant Ian * If you're not coming 1*11 do it on my own' Harris came from, OC: Well, Privates Meek, Shearin and Foltyn also finished the course and Private ' Billy' Connolly pushed his bike around after it had been sabotaged. M: Wasn't there another bike story, Sir, after we had bought the four new Unit bikes? OC: Yes T Private Steve Williams borrowed one for the day. He got lost after fifteen kilometres and pushed the hike home. He had to push* because a brake-block fell out, the saddle fell off, his mudguard became loose and he couldn't change out of tenth gear. M: Sounds like the right man for MTO, Sir. Lance Corporal Wharton wouldn't be any good, it took him a whole day to put it all together again. 1 gather the Unit club has been used a lot, OC: Very much so. We had a curry lunch after Church Sunday on the 23rd and a barbeque on the ISth. It's also booked for the 18th of August for the ten pin bowling team, who came runners up in the So est Garrison league. Sergeant Dougie Dillow was first in the high series scratch and W02 Tony Raffan came first in the high series handicap. M: Not bad for the only minor Unit in the league. OC: There's an interest in other sports too. Lieutenant Callan is regularly taking people water-ski-ing and there has been a revival of interest in squash and badminton. The cricket team have only played three matches though, but the Unit did come third in the volleyball league. M: Still on the social side, didn't some of the ladies run a White Elephant stall at the Station Fete? OC: Yes—Mrs D. Skinner, Mrs B, Mob ley, Mrs D. Gumbs, Mrs J. Jeffries, Mrs D. Cowl and Mrs D. Hooper all helped out on that one. M: If I put all that down, Sir, it will seem as if we never work. OC: Hmm, well, there was always Exercise Summer Sales in which sleepy Lieutenant Bob Ellis, Second Lieutenant Frank * If it's food, I'll eat it* Perks, W02 Tony ' Worker* Raffan, Sergeant Taff Hughes and Corporal Steve Halliwell took part. And Lance Corporal Sullivan and Private Bamett came 155 — |
| Book number | R0247 |