RAOC Gazette - page 202
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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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THEY ALSO REMEMBER IN Belgium they hold annual parades and memorial services to commemorate their liberation. Their anniversaries naturally coincide with the timing of the Allies advance North East across the country. Our photograph of the Royal British Legion con- tingent to the Tank ceremony in Antwerp was provided by the Ordnance Depot who also took part in the parade. The ceremony in Antwerp was followed by one the following week in Geel where the area of the Albert Canal was the scene of fierce fighting in 1944. Photo Lieutenant Colonel Warren Whittaker Captain A . V. Glasby C M , on the Range at Ash. Team for a number of years and was selected to shoot for the Great Britain Three Position Rifle Team for the first time in 1977. He has made rapid progress in the last two or three years and has hit excellent form this year—producing a personal best score of 1156 points out of 1200 in the International postal match at Bisley in August. At the Inter Services Long Range Small Bore Champion- ships in September, he was the top scorer in every match. Photo Private Hodder. Members of the Antwerp Branch of the Royal British Legion marching past ' The Tank.' STOP PRESS THE British team collected four gold, three silver and two bronze medals. Captain Glasby fired in the three positional team which won the team gold medal in the kneeling phase of the three position match. The team was placed fourth in both the three position aggregate and the standing position, being beaten by USA, Germany and Sweden. Seventy one countries took part in the champio?iships and 1 understand that it is some thirty years since a Team Event medal has been won by a British Team. BLARNEY I AM indebted to our Northern Ireland correspondent for this little piece of well nonsense. The autumn winds are commencing to blow over Lough Neagh which, for those who are interested in useless informa- ticn, is the largest freshwater lake in the British Isles; the legend goes that some giant named Finn McCool done it. It seems he had an enemy in Scotland, and one day Finn got mad and picked up a handful of good old Ireland and threw it at the bloke in Scotland; as telescopic sights had not been invented in those days, the missile went off course and landed in the Irish Sea and became the Isle of Man. That sure was a big handful of . . . . rock and stuff. So remember when you eat your next Manx Kipper (which are caught in Liverpool Bay) you have Old Finn to thank, also he gave us a good holiday spot, Manx Cats and the TT Races. But like any good legend there is an alternative story (in case you don't believe the first one) which would appeal to those who fish. A long time ago in the fertile valley there was a spring well which the fairies demanded should be covered every night. Of course the inevitable happened and someone left the cover off one night and the fairies got mad, and the well swelled and swelled and filled the whole valley. This story prompted a gentleman named Thomas Moore to include a song about the lake in his book of Irish Melodies. To the best of our know- ledge the words went something like: — On Lough Neagh's bank, as the fisherman strays On the cool clear eve reclining, He sees the round towers * of other days, In the waves beneath him shining. *A landmark of early Celtic times. SO THAT'S WHERE THEY WENT THE pressures to maintain the computer-based inventory are so enormous that DSM(A) Control Division (Bicester) shyly admit that they have fallen behind slightly with file weeding and cupboard clearing; not seriously, they hasten to assure us, but just slightly behind schedule, And so it was that * Provisional Priced Vocabulary of 1 Clothing and Necessaries, 1915 was retrieved from the dark recesses of Mr Bert Bunting's office cupboard. Bert was acutely embarrassed when the 1923 version was also produced > thereby proving beyond all reasonable doubt that the 1915 edition was superseded and should have been sent to Archives during the last weeding blitz! Some extracts from the Vocabulary (1915 prices not subject to VAT): PART L Pimlico—Section 1 HEAD-DRESSES: CAPS, FORAGE, GLENGARRY, ETC. Catalogue No. 2. Caps, field, Royal Flying Corps (drab) each Is. 7d. Pimlico—Section 15 CLOTHING, ARMY ORDNANCE CORPS Catalogue No. 1255. Frocks, Serge—Conductors and Sub- Conductors (without badge or chevrons; with shoulder cords; serge, blue, No, 1, trimmed gold braid, No. 1 and No. 3, and iin gold lace), each £1 7s. 3d. Pimlico—Section 33 SPECIAL ARTICLES PROVIDED FOR WAR SERVICE Catalogue No. 3278. Aprons—Motor Car Drivers, 13s. 8d. Catalogue No. 3294. Brushes, Officers—tooth, 6d. The Index includes: Bodkins, Buttons Pekin Police, Fezzes, Girdles—Army Service Corps (? !), Knickerbockers—Cyclists,. Puggarees, Trousers—Chapel Keeper and Waistcoats—Lift at- tendant. The vocabularies have been sent to the Curator of the RAOC Museum together with Regulations (Provisional) for National Servicemen in the Army, WO Code 4057 (War Office— December, 1948); Instructions for dealing with Documents and Correspondence in Military Offices 1926 and Bert's personal and amended June 1945 edition of the Seniority Roll of Depart- mental Clerks, Grade III, serving in War Office Outstations. — 165 — |
| Book number | R0247 |