RAOC Gazette - page 230
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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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(jermany with a further two men entering the twenty kilometre September's rU n and six entering the twenty kilometre march. etfor: has been nine men in an eleven kilometre run in Pader- r, rn 'ind fourteen men in a twenty one kilometre run at Lage- gorste. r c e More runs are planned for the future even though nt tne fifty P^ °f company are involved in Exercise Provident gesture Rheinsehlen over the next few weeks. Staff Sergeant (Cnoil is the driving force behind the running craze and is being ably supported by Corporal Coates, Lance Corporals Gilfillan and Hardy as well as Privates Arfield, Mansell and Williams. (It is necessary to point out, dear reader, that 44 Company does They also play volleyball, go n t spend all its time running. swimming, play football and release eight men for the Battalion rugby team as well as coping with an increasing commitment for ti;e issue of SIM MO floral tributes via Battalion Head- auafters please). 4 49 RP COMPANY FAR from being a quiet period the last two months have been quite hectic. Captain Taylorson alias ' Lawrence of Arabia' left our petroleum platoon for a punishment tour in England. ^ e understand he is now engaged and our best wishes go with him. W02 Tannock also departed leaving chaos in the Unit Jesses where the Company chorused the next day * Never again.' Our wives and girlfriends quite rightly retorted * Serves you all right* The new CSM, W02 Moffat, is now busy re- building our decimated ranks, The soccer team under the enthusiastic example and leader- ship of Private Rickie Clyde is winning every match and the team look good in their brand new Company colours. Top goal scorers are Clyde Lance Corporal Mickey Weir and Private Phil Reynolds. Meanwhile the rugby team led by our New Zealander, Captain Hitehings, is moving from strength to strength. The team colours of black and blue seem apt as in the third match the OC was carted off with broken ribs after scoring the teams first try of the season. PT should be less exhausting for a while. Mind you he still moans all day but it is only because he cannot try out his new parachute. J Sergeant Bill McSeveny our ACC representative keeps escaping on adventure training to Bavaria with all the Unit rations and has brought back four fat and smug looking soldiers. He is off again to Denmark on the pretext of watch- ing a game of soccer in Copenhagen! Staff Sergeant Geordie Symons and the Petroleum Platoon are never here. They are always away taking things easy on exercise and are reputed to keep saying "We've never 'ad it so good." We all reckon they were volunteered. Staff is acting as Platoon Commander and it is thought to have gone to his head. Mind you, they can put on a good display of over- turned petrol tankers for visiting senior officers, The culmination of recent events however must be the arrival of the Company's first Obernkirchen Baby. Weighing in at eight pounds two ounces on 8th September we increased our ration strength by one baby boy, Dwight Hindle. Dwight is our * First Fortyniner' and son of Lance Corporal and Mrs Hindle. Well done mum and dad, but you shouldn't have called him D. D, Hindle after our new role as a Div Dump Company. Life still continues in a humorous pattern and the Com- pany is kept cheerful by the pranksters Corporals Geordie Hetherington and Jim Whitehead. They swear that it is never them but always Corporal Bunn of the REME stable. Early in September a group of men from the Company entered a forty two kilometre (twenty seven mile) run and march, held at Alterath near Koeln. Each member of the five man team completed the long trek and are 1 to be congratulated on their efforts. Our team of 'Foot Sore heros were Lance Corporals Scouse Waddell and Scouse Ditchfield, Privates Scouse Taylor, Dick Spence and Chass Sloan. Congratulations to Captain Ian Jones, Privates Adams, Bache and Stevens on their respective marriages. Arrivals: welcome to Major Lampard, Captain Laceby, Captain Wood, Lieutenant Clarkson, W02 Moffatt, Sergeant Anderson, Corporals Edgeworth, Gritton and Palmer and Privates Chapman, Dwyer, Hayward, Hitchings, Port and Smith. Corps Troops CORPS STORES COMPANY RICHMOND BARRACKS is one of the largest building com- plexes in Bielefeld. Its echoing courtyards have reflected the various military sounds over years of British occupation. It *s also a building which attracts rumour. One such is that there are bodies sealed into undiscovered rooms in the cellars which run into maze like profusion underneath us. Another is that Stores Company never leave barracks. Untrue! During July we combined our field training with the members of 51 (V) Company (Glasgow) as a work up for Exercise Summer Sales. It still amazes us that these volunteer soldiers, with full time jobs and families, can afford enough time to become as military proficient as they obviously are. In August we de- ployed for two weeks with the Vehicle and Ordnance Com- panies. It was during this Exercise that Lieutenant Colonel Man, WOl Dobson and CSM Hulston were invited to enjoy a breakfast shoot with the local Graf (Squire). One shotgun, a Belgian FN, cost more than £1,000 some years ago! The social event of the period (and subject of our photo- graph) was the presentation by Brigadier Whalley of a Long Service and Good Conduct Medal as well as two twenty five year certificates. The recipients were Sergeant Webster (our cook), Mr Ted Rogers and Herr Franz Weih who share sixty five years service between them. Photo Public Relations 1 (BR) Corps. After the presentation, Sergeant Webster, Brigadier Herr Weih and Mr Rogers. Whalley, Congratulations go to Sergeant Muggleton for his tennis achievements he represented BAOR and the Army (Army colours); His other successes, UK RAOC doubles winner, Inter Corps doubles runner up, BAOR doubles runner up, RAOC BAOR doubles winner, RAOC BAOR singles runner up. Con- gratulations also to Private Young on passing out top on the Supply Specialist Bl course. Promotions: WOl Dobson, W02 Webster and Lance Corporal Laydon. Welcome to Sergeant Webster, Corporals Sheppard and Rendall, Lance Corporals Higgins and Wilson, Privates Young, Westwood and Brown. STORES PLATOON CORPS TROOPS WORKSHOP THE two main highlights of August are the return of our Op Banner contingent. Welcome back lads, nice to see you all after a safe tour. The second being the capture of the Unit Inter-Platoon sports cup. This event is spread over a month and consists of: ' Sevens Rugby-Volley ball March and Shoot-Log Race-Tug-of- War-Stretcher Race and Relay. Our team consisted of ten stalwarts and gained three firsts, one second, two thirds and a fifth place. All winners received plaques and the trophy was duly wet by all. When you consider the strength of other Workshop Platoons it is quite an achievement. Congratulations to Private Spud and Jan Murphy on the safe birth of their first child, this was also celebrated! Condolences must be passed to Private Andy David still in BMH after a fall? during the Op Banner party. Still he's managed to miss the exercises. Of the recent bomb incidents in BAOR we had the biggest in the Workshop Barracks, Call-out quickly saw people arriving and who should be the first WO in camp7 "Super Q*M Organise a search and secure the perimeter said OC Workshop. Mumble mumble! Twenty four hours and various reports later we went home. (Teach him to live fifty yards from camp said Sergeant R - Arrangements for our disco this month are well in hand, with the Joe " what did he say " Connell sound. Then we are out for three weeks on exercise. 187 — |
| Book number | R0247 |