RAOC Gazette - page 238
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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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REPRESENTATIVE COLONEL COiMMANDANT HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN has given approval to the ap- pointment of Major General N. H. Speller CB, as Representative Colonel Commandant, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, for the year 1979. The DCOS presents a Jubilee Bowl to Major General F. C, Sheffey, Commanding General US Army Quartermaster Center at Fort Lee. ADC TO THE QUEEN COLONEL W. F. KELLY TO, the Colonel Reserve Army, RAOC TAVR Sponsored Units, has been appointed Aide-de- Camp to Her Majesty The Queen, with effect from 5th Novem- ber 1978. JtTBIL.EE PRESENTATIONS THE DGOS is presenting RAOC Jubilee Bowls and pairs of the special Philatelic Covers, commissioned for the Carps Jubilees, to Allied Ordnance Corps and to the USA Quartermaster Corps. Two presentations were made at Andover recently when Major General F. C. Sheffey, Commanding General USA Quartermaster Centre, Fort Lee and Commandant of the USA Quartermaster School, and Brigadier G. R. Jayasinghe, Director of Logistics and an ex-DOS of the Sri Lanka Army Ordnance Corps, visited the DGOS at Andover. The presenta- tion to Brigadier Jayasinghe was made by Major General Darkin, acting for the Representative Colonel Commandant, at a luncheon held in Brigadier Jayasinghe's honour In return. Brigadier Jayasinghe very generously presented an engraved silver cigarette box to the Corps with the compliments and best wishes of the Sri Lanka Army Ordnance Corps. The DGOS presented the Jubilee Bowl and Philatelic Covers to Major General Sheffey for the USA Quartermaster Corps. General Shefley presented a Quartermaster Corps Plaque to General Callan. Arrangements are in hand for presentations to be made, when suitable opportunities occur, to the RAAOC, RNZAOC, Indian Army Ordnance Corps and to the Malaysian Ordnance Corps. Bowls and Philatelic Covers have been sent to Lieutenant Colonel J. F. G, Cook (JSSC Canberra student) and Lieutenant Colonel H. R. Higgins (1 BOD Trentham) to make presenta- tions to DOS Australia and DOS NZ on behalf of the DGOS. HOVER TANK SOUNDS like a new battlefield experiment—and it's almost as interesting. This method of moving fuel storage tanks by hovering was tested experimentatly at West Moors some ten years ago; the base of each tank is fitted with a rubber skirt and the tank is then floated on a cushion of air—as does the hovercraft. Six such tanks are being moved as part of a modernisation programme underway at the Petroleum Depot, When the pro- gramme is completed, which involves not only the bulk tank farm but the jerrican packing fuel line, the Depot should have as modern an operation as can be found in civilian industry. Brigadier G. R. Jayasinghe, Director of Logistics Sri Lanka and ex-DOS Sri Lanka Army Ordnance Corps with the Jubilee Bowl presented by Major General R. B. Darkin* General Darkin holds the silver cigarette box presented by A l l Ranks Sri Lanka Army Ordnance Corps t o the RAOC. — 194 — Photo Bournemouth News & Picture Service A Soldier with a bit of pull? |
| Book number | R0247 |