RAOC Gazette - page 240
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| Corps | RAOC |
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| Full title | RAOC Gazette |
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| Publication date | 1978 |
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| Colour | No |
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| Early date | 1978 |
| Late date | 1978 |
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The original aim of the exercise was to cover the distance of approximately eighty miles while instructing eight novices and bringing them up to the Army Canoe Union basic certificate standard. However, they became so proficient that they were able to take time out to have some fun on some very hairy local white water—as our photograph shows, WHO SAID THAT THE COLONKL WOULD MAKE A GOOD CLERK ? THE many friends of Colonel Ian Cramplun will know that he has changed his job but few will have seen him in his official capacity as Town Clerk of Wallingford-on-Thames (Charter 1155). After retirement and then some eighteen months as Company Secretary to a firm of Exhibition Organisers, a chance sight of an advertisement for the vacancy led to the appointment only a few minutes from where he and his wife were already living, The Town Clerk is Chief Executive, Administrative and Financial Officer of the Council and is responsible for co- ordinating the whole of the work of the Council. Photo Corporal Arnold w One blow from Creta. there were surprisingly few casualties and the great majority of the people took it all in their stride. On the military side T because of the planned exercise, everyone was fully aware of their various responsibilities and the minimum of damage was caused to military property. All in all a successful exercise— but perhaps just a little too realistic! D I G UN THE heavyweight team from the 2nd Armoured Division Ord- nance Company takes the strain against the 5th Royal Inmskilling Dragoon Guards during the Osnabruck Garrison Open Day tug-of-war competition. Having previously beaten the 7th Regiment Royal Horse Artillery (semi-finalists in this years Army finals) and the 1st Battalion The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment the 2 ADOC team are about to beat the Inniskillings to win a place in the final. Photo Oxford Mail and Times. During the ceremony of the appointment of the Mayor of Wallingford-on-Thames, Councillor W. P. Revell, Colonel Ian Crompton the Town Clerk, confirms the Acceptance of Office. In the background is the Sergeant-at-Mace, Mr C. Oakes, MVO, This extract from an old book on Civic Ceremonial elaborates the Clerk's standing: — "Apart from his personal position, on ceremonial occasions it is normally made a term of the Town Clerk's appointment that he should supervise the arrangements for all ceremonial occasions and ensure that they are conducted in accordance with custom and usage. The office is a very ancient one—indeed one of the earliest recorded is that relating to the Town Clerk of Ephesus. The robe worn by a Town Clerk is of black silk ornamented with a number of small silk tufts and trimmed with a broad band of black velvet and robe lace trimming. This, worn with a wig, makes the Town Clerk an impressive figure on ceremonial occasions. The Town Clerk is the temporal adviser to the Mayor. as the Chaplain is his spiritual adviser, and as such he should be with the Mayor on all official occasions/' UNPREDICTABLE GRETA HURRICANES are perhaps one of natures more brutal reminders that she is very much a force to be reckoned with. Such a hurricane was Greta. Greta, like all females, was quite unpredictable and changed direction several times, before she finally made up her mind and arrived on the day when, believe it or not, a full scale Hurricane Exercise had been planned. Greta caused considerable damage to the economy of Belize by destroying a variety of crops upon which the Belize an economy depends, however, the country is well on the way to recovery and must be grateful for the fact that On the left of the picture and coaching the team is Lieu- tenant Rarle. From right to left the team is Captain Reid, Lance Corporal Downey, Private Miles, Second Lieutenant O'Sullivan, Corporal Duncan, Major Con way-Hyde, Private Richardson and Corporal Walden. RECORDS BROKEN BY ARMY BENEVOLENT FUND DURING the year ended 31st March 197S, the Army Benevolent Fund paid out the record sum of nearly £ H million in general relief work on behalf of soldiers, ex-soldiers and their depen- dants. This was revealed by the fund's chairman, General Sir John Mogg, at the recent annual meeting of the fund's Control Board at the Duke of York's Headquarters, Chelsea. The fund's president, Field Marshal Sir Geoffrey Baker, presided. Drawing attention to the annual report for 1977/78, the chairman stressed that the amount disbursed was the largest 196 — |
| Book number | R0247 |