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Transcription Royal Army Ordnance Corps Association
ASSOCIATION
NEWS
Annual Sub scrip Hon
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Patron
Her Majesty The Queen
President
The Representative Colonel Commandant, RAOC
Headquarters RAOC Secretariat, Deepcut, Camberley, Surrey. Deepcut 5001 (Ext. 105)
HQ Members, 2/6; Branches (max.), 5/-
Life Membership Fee ... £3 3s. Qd.
Headquarters
ARRANGEMENTS are now completed for the annual dinner
at the Victory ex-Services Club, London, on 26th April, and
provision has been made for a record attendance. All we
now require is for members to apply for their tickets in good
time,
Although all branch annual reports have not yet been
received at the time of going to press, there is every indication
that the recruiting drive for serving members is having good
effect. In particular we are pleased to welcome a number of
senior ranks who have become Life members.
It *is with regret that we have to report the closure of the
Huddersfield Branch.
The branch has struggled to remain
active but with no regular RAOC unit, and with the reduction
of the TA in the area, they have had no source from which
to enrol new members.
The following Branch changes are announced:
BELGIUM BRANCH
Hon. Secretary: for Capt R. I. Phillips read Major R. I.
Phillips.
BERLIN BRANCH
Hon. Secretary: Sgt B. M. Bennett, Ord Services Berlin,
BFPO 45.
BIELEFELD BRANCH
Hon. Treasurer: Lt K. F. O'Kelly vice Capt T. C. W,
Profitt.
CATTERICK BRANCH
Chairman: Lt-Colonel L G- Jarvis, vice Lt-Colonel J. C.
Atherton.
Hon. Secretary: Change of Address: Major A, J. Mac-
Donald, Ord Branch. HQ Northumbrian District, Scotton Road,
Catterick Camp, Yorks.
CHEPSTOW BRANCH
Chairman: Capt B. Allen, vice Capt M. A. Pike.
Vice Chairman: SSM J. C. P. Salby, vice SSM P. E, S.
Gurney.
CENTRAL MALAYSIAN BRANCH
Hon. Secretary: Capt S. G, de Wolf, HQ 28 Comwel Inf
Bde, Terendak Camp, c/o GPO Malacca, Malaysia, vice Capt
V. E. Sims,
YORK BRANCH
Hon. Secretary: Major R. E, Harris, Northern Command
Ord Depot, Fulford Barracks, York,
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Central London Branch
DUE to unforseen circumstances, the Branch Annual General
Meeting had to be delayed until February, so news of this
meeting will necessarily have to be deferred until next month.
In the meantime we are glad to record that two members of
the Branch have taken advantage of the new Service Life
Membership scheme open to all serving Warrant Officers,
Non-Commissioned Officers and Soldiers. We have a feeling
that, as and when the scheme is more widely known, we shall
receive further applications. The cost is £2 only and Service
Life Membership includes a free Corps tie and Association lapel
badge. The Honorary Secretary will be glad to give details
to any serving RAOC soldier, in the London area.
The Branch committee have devised a fairly full and in-
teresting programme for 1969 and the details will be notified
as soon as the AGM has been held.
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Birmingham Branch
A PARTY from the Branch is to pay a visit to a pantomime
at the Birmingham Alexandra Theatre,—a theatre controlled
by Major D. Salberg, President of the Federation of Birming-
ham Ex-Service Associations.
The Branch twenty-first annual dinner is to be held at
the Co-operative Restaurant. Birmingham, on 7th November.
Donningron Branch
SINCE re-activation of the Branch in May 1968, as reported
in our last letter, the attendance at monthly meetings has been
maintained and we can now count upon some thirty members
turning up at the Coddon Club on the fourth Thursday of
each month.
At our January meeting we had the pleasure of the com-
pany of the President, Brigadier N. Barclay, who is also Com-
mandant of the COD. It was an evening of games during
the course of which some members learned new games and
Conductor Cranney won the darts tournament. We gather,
however, that Sergeant Kitwood, who is on the Branch com-
mittee. can claim a moral victory in this. By the time the next
meeting comes round he will be a proud father.
Our social activities sub-committee. Captain J. Houseman,
A. D. Evans, SQMS Sinclair and Ken Plant are making arrange-
ments for a ladies night in February and the Branch dinner
in March, at which we hope to see members of the Birming-
ham and Shrewsbury Branches.
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