RAOC Gazette - page 217
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| Publication date | 1981 |
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| Early date | 1981 |
| Late date | 1981 |
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previous week he had signed a programme for the Commandants Shoot Dinner which read " Commandant Shoots Dinner Guests" If after this note I am still able. I hope to bring you up to date with the winners of all the competitions next month. Army School of Ammunition THE Station ARU and Inspection was conducted by Brigadier Cubiss and our photograph shows the Brigadier discussing EOD equipment with the Commandant Colonel Higgins, Commanding Officer of the Army School of Ammunition Lieutenant Colonel Hendy and OIC EOD Branch Major Hawkins. The school has now joined the computer age with the arrival of the long awaited micro computer. Captain Ritchie is now proceeding to confuse all the staff by trying to educate them, into this new world of 'de-bugging/ floppy discs and ' bootstrapping.' It is hoped that the computer will ease the burden on the school start with regard to the vast amounts of statistical and analytical work which at present is produced manually. A cheque for £ 1 , 3 being presented by t h e Commandant to Mr Charles W h i t t l e . Mrs Laura W i l l i a m s an instigator of the collection is shown next to Colonel Higgjns. Whittle the Midlands organiser visited Kineton with his own dog ' S a m ' to collect a cheque for £1,030 which was presented by the Commandant. The organisers would like to thank the Sergeants Mess for their donation of £200 towards the total raised. Our Station Fire Officer, Mr Norman Turner, is in the Army Fire Service team which intends to walk from John O'Groats to Lands End and they hope to complete the walk within six days. Not to be outdone though is a team consisting of three soldiers and three WRAC from " B ' Company under the managership of Captain Tom Armstrong who intend to run from John O'Groats, to Lands End starting in June, Monies collected will be divided between the Great Ormond Street Childrens Hospital and local charities. Please note sponsors are urgently required. The news from 'A 1 Company is that they are under pressure to get their stand for the Aldershot Army Display ready and of course they are handicapped in the sense that their SAT whilst demonstrating trick cycling to 72 Company (V) had a mishap, he is trying to supervise though with his leg in plaster, he was heard to say L ' It saves carrying a millboard." We say farewell to Corporals MacKillop, Norris and Clarke. ' B ' Company has said farewell to Lieutenant Colonel David Attwood who moved sideways to OIC C and A and welcome to Major Gerry Page. Districts 3 and 4 have now amalgamated to ease the manpower problem and it now remains to keep the MHE rolling in order to keep up with the workload. Con- gratulations to WOI Tony Woodley on his promotion and wish him good luck in his new post in Brunei, congratulations are also in order for Lance Corporal Keith Edwards and Julie on the birth of their daughter. The badminton team, as forecast, ended the season as Champions of Division 4 mixed, nearest rivals having lost two games to our one. Success was due to the great support given to the team by our ladies, Betty Gulliver, Julie Glynn, Sarah Berresford and Clare Thomas. We are now busy building our team for next year and it is hoped that with the inter company badminton competition new talent will come to light to replace John Nairn and Mark Megat who have returned to Malaysia, The hockey team played in the Army Quarter Finals and lost four nil to the School of Artillery, the score does not depict the true game because it was a very close match. The league is still in turmoil due to the many cancellations but it is hoped that by this time next month true league placings will be known. All hopes now centre on the Bari Cup which will be played for at Blackdown. There appears to be lots of activities taking place in the evenings with darts competitions in the Junior Ranks Club, Inter Company Volley Ball, seven-a-side rugby, six-a-side football and the Unit Inter Company Shoot which takes place this week and to cap it all certain individuals want to run from John O'Groats to Lands End, it makes you think, it must be the Kineton air. Talking about Kineton air the Commandant Colonel Harry Higgins had great pleasure in showing your scribe a letter that the Chief Planning Officer had written stating that the Paymaster Captain Alan Woodcock, had a hobby—Gun Dog Shooting. I didn't have the nerve to point out to the Commandant that the A look at EOD e q u i p m e n t during the A R U . On the sporting scene we offer our congratulations to Sergeant Travers on winning an Army Cap for rugby when he represented the Army against the Royal Navy at Twickenham. We also offer our congratulations to Major Yearling upon being selected for promotion to Lieutenant Colonel (OEO). Well done Fred. Central Ammunition Depot Longtown THE Depot has settled back into the routine after a certain amount of difficulty created by the rail dispute. Difficulties provide us with challenges; we met and surmounted all the challenges and now issues are back to normal. The Sergeants Mess held a Cheese and Wine Nite which was made the venue for the First National Hunt of CAD Long- town, It was a meeting of four races; was very successful and a good night was had by all Meanwhile, in the Officers Mess a Ladies Dinner Night was held at which Mr and Mrs Bill Thompson and Mr and Mrs David Johnston were dined out. It is always sad to see stalwarts leaving a unit and Bill Thorny son, our OIC Eastriggs, and Mr David Johnston, the Depot Resources Controller, have a total MOD service of some seventy two years between them. Mr David Johnston joined Longtown in 1946 after leaving the King's Own Scottish Borderers and has served in various departments before filling the appointment of Resources Controller. Mr Bill Thompson began his Corps service in 1939 as an Ammunition Storeman; he was taken prisoner by the Japanese in Hong Kong and was a member of the infamous Shamshepo Camp and thereby became one of the original labourers to begin to build the now famous runway out into the bay in Hong Kong harbour. After the war he served at Didcot and Bicester and then finally for seventeen years at CAD Longtown as the SOG ' B ' in charge of Eastriggs. We wish them both a long, healthy and happy retirement. The trend of changing vehicle shapes from the maker's specification has been carried out when the SAT's car was 4S7 — |
| Book number | R0250a |