RAOC Gazette - page 23
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| Publication date | 1968 |
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| Early date | 1968 |
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STATION AT H€/UE The Regimental Depot RAOC THIS month has seen the practical promotion exam in which all our candidates passed! Congratulations to Capt. Walton (what would have been said if the Adjutant had failed!) and to Lt. Watson and 2/Lt. Inshaw on their success too. All candidates owe much to the indefatigable Major Chilcott who did so much of the pre-exam training. Our other big effort was the Home Defence exercise—a pleasant fantasy with light relief in the clobbering of Junior Leaders who had the temerity to ' loot' the NAAFI. DEPOT COMPANY: We are sorry to have to report this month that Sgt. Godwin has gone the way of many good RD men and started a CQMS course. We feel that with him and SgL Grimes nothing will get posted by the drafting office with- out being signed for. The Company is delighted to record the return of Capt. Lungley: we did not realise that he was on our posted strength until the end of his last batch of leave! We were quite worried in the middle of the month when Capt. Wilson persisted in carrying on about a gentleman called * Barry' and his cup, whilst we all understood he was away running some hockey. However, it appears that all went well. CSlVt Stephen is making his mark on drafting office yet again; nasty stuff this plaster-of-paris! The Company took part in W'mtex lll t the Training Centre Civil Defence exercise. The day was an education in itself when, apart from lectures, the Company learned a lot from practical training and Training Company's sideshows, COURSES COMPANY': ts in a state of perpetual oneupmanship. Whatever exercise is held the unit they serve is not involved. "All arms courses, old chap—can't stop them." So the Com- pany placidly beavers away trying to deal with dozens of course personnel who arrive here. Capt. Bates joins, and Capt. Duff goes on the OOs course. TRAINING COMPANY: After operating on a shoestring (Clerkwise) during the first half of this month, the Coy has returned from the Easter training break with a full complement of staff in the Coy office. Welcome to Cpl, Allen who has arrived from the Officers Records Section to take over as Chief Clerk of the Company. L/Cpl. Norton, much to his relief, has now been relieved of his responsibility after doing a splendid job before the break in sifting through some 180 leave passes. He is now waiting to go to the Persian Gulf. Recruiting is still poor, but there is hope of some im- provement in the summer months. But this eases the burden of the PI Comds and gives them a chance to catch up on their many extraneous duties. Congratulations to our phantom 2IC, Capt. D. Baughan, on gaining a place at Staff College. I say phantom because he spends most of his time sitting in as acting Adjt. Rumour has it that he has run away as the Corps shoot is now rearing its ugly head! Cross Country: The only event of note to report is the RAOC Championships held at Kineton at the end of March. The Training Centre was positioned 5th—quite a commendable result, which might have been bettered had some other regular runners been available. Those who ran for the Training Centre included Lt. W. Forshaw (RAEC), 2/Lt. D. Kime, SSI Freeman (who is to be congratulated on his individual performance), CpL Bradley and L/Cpl. Hamilton. Rugby: Another season has drawn to a close marked, as usual, by the end-of-season dinner and sing-song; this naturally was greatly enjoyed by all. A feature of this year's event was that everyone was still standing at the finish and that the land- lord has agreed to have us back next year. Unfortunately we did not distinguish ourselves at anything this season. We have readymade excuses for every defeat, of course, but we cannot bore you with them now. This will be the last mention of rugby in the newsletter for some time, so we will bid farewell to our skipper, Sgt. ' Taffy' Edwards, who is leaving soon for BAOR, where we wish him luck for next season. NEWS Junior Leaders* Battalion RAOC THE spring term ended on 11th April, when forty-six young men graduated from the Battalion. The salute at the passing- out parade was taken by Brigadier P. H. Girling, Comd REME Training Centre. Arhorfield. With the winter months now behind us, we all look forward to the summer term with its promise of long days and balmy evenings and the thrill of summer camp-, to be spent at Tregantle Fort in Cornwall. The sporting highlight of the month was almost certainly on 1st April when the Battalion rugby XV met Chilwell in the final of the Hill Cup. The detail* of this hard fought contest are to be read elsewhere in T H E GAZETTE. However, although victory was not ours, we felt proud to be in the final and con- gratulate the better team on their decisive win. The close of the rugby season was marked by a successful seven-a-side competition held on 8th April. Parsons Platoon won the day, thus confirming B Coy as the overall winners of the Battalion rugby competition. The culmination of the sailing club activities for J/RSM Bate was two weeks * before the m a s t ' aboard the Sail Training Association's ship, Winston Churchill. Bob Bates's comment was: " I enjoyed my days at sea very much, but I am glad I joined the Army." Regretfully, this term we must say goodbye to him on his graduation to man service, and we all wish him well when he leaves for his first tour in Germany, Here we continue our sailing notes with the follow-up story of our all-too-short * affair' with Monique Marie. A slightly edited extract from Jim Watson's diary tells the story, " In the last edition I gave an account of our first offshore weekend aboard Monique Marie. The next weakened, the last in March, we headed for Marcham. hoping that the weather would be more kind to us. " W e boarded Monique Marie ;it 4 pm. stowed kit and food and by 5 pm were heading down creek for Poole Harbour. Within fifteen minutes the crew very efficiently hoisted main and foresail and. with a Junior Leader at the helm, we success- fully negotiated the tricky channels. By 6.30 pm had tied up for the night in a very snug berth in Poole Harbour, The NEW 1968 VAUXHALL VICTOR free of Purchase Tax! The Vavxhall Viva from £49-, Estate Car from £665 Six-cylindtr mofos from CB14 Special Discount to eligible Service personnel If you are being pasted abroad or returning to England for re-pasting overseas, a new Vauxhall can be yours free of Purchase Tax Part Exchanges, Hire Purchase and Insurance arranged We will gladly supply full detoi/s E. J. BAKER & Co. Ltd. "The Vauxhall-Bedford Centre'' I, LOWER F A R N H A M R O A D , A L D E R S H O T Tetephon* A l d e r s h o t 24401 Alert n u u at a L Dorking. Guildford, Aeigate, C h e r t « y . Tunbrtdge Wells, Eas: Grinstead and Stairie* Tonbrldge, |
| Book number | R0238 |