RAOC Gazette - page 203
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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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SQUASH RACQUETS— A TAKE-OVER K I D «> THE Army Squash Racquets team named for the fixture against Cambridge University on 23rd October was Major John Woodliffe, Major Ted Champion, Sergeant Robbie Robinson and Sergeant Dave Bradley all of the Corps, together with Captain Chris Wilson RA, A clear case of a take over bid of Army Squash by the Corps and we congratulate our players on their selection. Sergeants Robinson and Bradley have recently returned from the Army Squash tour in Hong Kong. COMMEMORATION OF GREAT SOLDIERS OF WORLD WAR II THE Appeal launched by Lord De L'Isle on 9th March 1978, seeking funds to create a memorial in the Crypt of St Paul's Cathedral to commemorate Great Soldiers of World War II has reached its target of £35,000. Work will now commence on the Memorial which it is hoped will be ready for Dedication in the autumn of 1979. Lord De L'Isle and the organising Com- mittee wish to express their thanks to all who subscribed to the fund and especially to members of the Army, the Royal British Legion, and other Ex-Service organisations in the United King- dom and the Commonwealth, who have done so much to further the AppeaL THE LATE S H O W KATHLEEN arrived Earlie for her wedding but was Laight for her reception! It was to be expected of course when WRAC Corporal Kathleen Earlie, formed up to marry Lance Corporal William Laight RAOC at St Augustines Church, Coatbridge, Scotland. Kathleen who works as a clerk in Pay Services at Head- quarters 1 (BR) Corps, met William, a G Branch clerk in the same Headquarters, in a German Gasthaus close to their barracks in Bielefeld. They have had a lot of leg pulls about their names but have taken it in good part. IN THE ATTIC THE Medical Officer at Buller Barracks Aldershot, Colonel Moss-Blundell, was looking around the attic of his house in Farnborough, when he came across a medal with the following inscriptions:— OBVERSE—Runners-up 1935 12 Section RAOC. REVERSE—Table Tennis Competition (Unit Teams) for the C of E Soldiers' Institute Cup Abbassia. Who owned it or how it got there we don't know, but perhaps someone can tell us. Back in 1935 THE GAZETTE Notices of 12 Section were written by Sergeant Blake, who used to sign himself ' Sexton ' but while he wrote a great deal of cricket, soccer, shooting etc; not a word on their prowess at table tennis. THE UPSIDE DOWN CORPORAL WORLD OF DODDS EXERCISE SUMMER SALES didn't take place in Australia— or did it? Or was the camouflage of Corporal Dodds and the Corps Troops Office Truck, on page 151 of the October GAZETTE, so good that the photograph got itself printed upside down. Or was it deliberate? Or indeed how many noticed! Perhaps we will never know—in any event it is too late for prizes now. 1978 A R M Y Wed 22 Nov Photo Public Relations (BAOR). RUGBY UNION FIXTURES Army Officers v RMAS ... Sandhurst Tut 5 Dec } F m a * T "als Aldershot Wed 6 Dec ".!!".!!!!!;!!;!!... RMCS Shrivenham Thu 7 Dec Aldershot Services Aldershot Wed 13 Dec Lydney Lydney kick off 7.00 pm Fri 15 Dec Llanelli Llanelli kick off 7.00 pm There is a very interesting fixture on the 21st of November when the Combined Services take on New Zealand at the Stadium in Aldershot In the morning, before the match, an International Honours Board and International Insignia Cabinet is to be unveiled in the Club House at the Stadium. This Board will have on it the names of all those who have gained Inter- national Honours whilst serving in the Army, and the Cabinet will contain items of Insignia presented to the ARU by some of those players. No longer an early bird. Talking about their future together Kathleen said, " I t won't be so bad when we're both Laight but I doubt if it will please our bosses!" THE SUCCESSOR TO CHIEFTAIN THE studies of the Chieftain tank replacement have now reached the stage where it is necessary to enter into more intensive com- ponent development. Work on the first stage of development, known as Project Definition, has therefore been started. The new tank must be in service by the late 1980s, when the Chieftain, despite improvements, will be coming to the end of its useful life. The successor to Chieftain will be required to match anticipated Warsaw Pact armoured and anti- armour capabilities well beyond the turn of the century and will be designed to the highest practicable standards of firepower, protection and mobility. Project Definition will be based on a tank of conventional turreted design carrying a four-man crew, protected by Chobham armour, and mounting a British rifled bore 120mm gun. FOR THE RECORD I GLEAN most of the material for this section of THE GAZETTE from either talking to people or by extracting suitable pieces from Unit newsletters. I would, however, be grateful for any short, chatty, newsy items that you feel might have a general interest or be worthy of permanent record. They can be with or without a photo- graph—though preferably with, I would like this part of THE GAZETTE to become a forum for keeping all ranks of the Corps in the picture of what of a serious—and not so serious nature, is going on. You 1 know the sort of thing—did you see in THE GAZETTE that } Things are happening every day—send them in, I am sure that others will be interested. Editor. DEAD-LINE DATE FOR RECEIPT OF COPY WILL ALL contributors kindly note that the deadline date for receipt of copy at THE GAZETTE Office really is the 29th of the month for publication a month later. 166 |
| Book number | R0247 |