RAOC Gazette - page 239
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| Corps | RAOC |
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| Material type | Journals |
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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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pantomime 'Dick Whittington' is now in rehearsal and plans are afoot to repair the Little Theatre ready to open by 1st March 1979. The Society is much indebted to the Wrekin District Council, the Telford Development Corporation, and certain local businesses and organizations for their many tangible offers of financial and manpower assistance. PRESENTATION OF A BEM AT BLACKDOWN STAFF SERGEANT SMITH was presented with the award by Major General Callan the Director General Ordnance Services, at a ceremony at the Employment Training School. Our photo- graph shows from left to right, Lieutenant Colonel Janes, Com- mandant of the Employment Training School, Staff Sergeant Smith, Mrs Smith and Major General Callan. How it is really done. The inflated skirt supplied and operated by Mears, a civilian firm, lifted the forty six ton empty container about ei :hteen inches from the ground. The tank, at the hover, was lfK-n towed by tractors fifty yards to its new base. Private Stephen Scott was captured by the local and national press and as you can see persuaded to pose for the photographers. However, do you notice anything unusual about him? (See page 197). DONMNGTON LITTLE THEATRE THE Little Theatre at Donnington recently suffered major damage to the stage, lighting equipment and roof through a fire in the early hours of the morning, the cause of which was traced to a faulty power cable beneath the stage. The temporary loss of the theatre comes at a time when the building had been completely modernised and refurbished, largely through self-help and at a time when the fame and reputation of the Society and its theatre, had been spreading throughout the county. In fact, arrangements had been made to transfer the Shropshire Drama League Festival from Shrews- bury to Donnington in March 1979. The Society however, arms •:. honour these commitments. Photo Captain JVf. E. Parsons Staff Sergeant Smith was born in London in 1940. He en- listed into RAOC in June 1958; after the successful completion of basic training, where he was best recruit, he was posted to Singapore and has since served in the United Kingdom, Aden and Northern Ireland. His award of the British Empire Medal is for service in the latter theatre where he worked long and arduous hours at his craft of printing. He is married with two children; his wife Bessie, whom he married in 1963, comes from the Seychelles. WITH A PADDLE FOURTEEN MEMBERS of 16 Battalion Bicester recently took , part in a canoeing exercise, paddling the length of the Caledonian Canal all the way from Fort William to Inverness. A view of the stage showing extent of the fire damage. The fire coincided with the opening night of 'The Pirates of Penzance/ produced by Harold Cross. The show went on as planned, but in the Garrison Church under arrangements made between Brigadier Short and the Bishop of Shrewsbury. rhe opera was considerably enhanced by the beauty of the ouilding and subsequently ran to packed houses on transferring to a local school at Hadley. Undeterred by its loss, the Society continues its Autumn programme staging Lieutenant Colonel Ian Gane's delightfully funny production of Noel Coward's * Present Laughter,' The — 1 Private Anderson of 16 Battalion with Lieutenant hot pursuit. McChie in |
| Book number | R0247 |