RAOC Gazette - page 29
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| Publication date | 1980 |
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| Early date | 1980 |
| Late date | 1980 |
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Spraying and the Flow Line. On top of all this we were allowed to make a few test drives. All credit goes to everybody in Olen who had to endure all those ladies and also managed to clear a backlog of vehicles which had resulted from Summer Camp and a greater amount of vehicles being sent out from Ashchurch. We welcome to the Unit Sergeant Hood, Corporal Mills and Lance Corporal Eckersley. Farewell to WOl Tarsnane, Staff Sergeant Seymour and Corporal Coney. 3 Base Ammunition Depot VISITORS have been rare, we had Lieutenant Colonel Broome RAOC here for Careers Interviews and the Psychometric Team to test the water! The football team under the inspiration of Brian Clough's cousin W02 Jimmy Richardson, is going from strength to strength. They have reached the quarter final of the BAOR Minor Units Competition after winning matches against 14 TOPO thirteen to one and the competition favourites 227 Signal Squadron six to one. Private Ian Crouch being the main goal- scorer with eleven in the competition. In the league we lie second to 3rd Armoured Division Transport Regiment having played seven matches and losing only one. We are also through to the quarter final of the DOS (BAOR) Cup beating SSD Viersen in the last round four nil. Sergeant Barry Taylor scoring a fine hat-trick in the match. The team would like to bid farewell to Private Ian Crouch on his posting to 1 Combat Supplies Battalion, and wish him well. It is of interest that his goal tally for the season for Bracht was twenty five league and eleven cup goals. The squash team also has a little to say for itself. The season is under way with Bracht supplying two teams in the Rhine Area Leagues and Cups. The first team consisting of Staff Sergeant Dave Bradley, Sergeants Bob Scott and Andy Vinicombe, Corporals ' Danny' Daniel and Dennis Seton and Mrs Angela O'Brien have had a bad start to the season only winning one out of their four opening matches. The second team pool of WOl John Lawrence, WOs2 ' Digger' Denholm and (that man again) Jimmy Richardson, Staff Sergeant Bob Davies, Corporals Chris Christopher and Ian Gray and Lance Corporal Frank Gardiner, have lost both their matches. That was the bad news, we sent a team to the RAOC Champion- ships held in Blackdown, consisting of Bradley, Daniel and Vinicombe. As a team we managed to reach the semi-final of the Team Competition only to be knocked out by the eventual winners. Apprentice College. In the individual competition Staff Sergeant Bradley won the 1979 Open Competition, beat- ing his ' veteran' opponent Major John Woodliffe of CVD Ashchurch. Corporal Daniel did very well to reach the semi- final of both the Novice and the Plate Competitions. We were a little upset at the departure of Major Bob Cook to Chilwell. We hope that he will enjoy his new appointment and his squash as he did here in Bracht. The Unit hockey team has been active in the Rhine Area competitions. In the cup we were defeated two nil to SSD Viersen, who brought a much improved team to the side we beat seven to one in a pre-season friendly. Our league progress is a little better. After losing to 13 Signal Regiment, one of the more stronger teams in the league, we beat 23 Transport and Movement Regiment two one. Our latest additions Private Dave Phillips and Lance Corporal Mick Tumlinson scored the winning goals. Congratulations to Lance Corporal ' Scouse' Cannell on being selected for the BAOR squad. The past month has been a very successful period for the Bracht Barbarians. The highlight being the Rhine Area Major Units rugby final against 21 Signal Regiment. Bracht ran out convincing winners fifty three to nil. This is the eighth time in nine years that Bracht has won the competition. One of the finds of the season has been Lance Corporal Ian Crawford, who has crossed the line twenty seven times already this season. This looks as though a new scoring record will be on the cards by the end of the season. The Barbarians produced twelve of the Corps side that beat the Royal Artillery fifty two to ten at Bracht recently. A badminton team has started under the professional eye of Sergeant Alan Sayer. To date no results have come my way but I am assured that hopes are high for some success. Other activities that have sprung up include ladies netball and keep- fit, fencing, golf lessons, five-a-side football, tug-of-war and rumour has it that circuit training can be arranged for interested personnel! Basketball is another new sport in Bracht, run by ' our man from the Corps,* we have a side in Division Two of the Rhine Area League. To date we have played four and won four. Bud- — 256 ding ' Globetrotters ' arc Staff Sergeant John Dudley REME, Corporal ' Robbo' Robertson among others who arc normally more at home on the rugby field. The PEC of the Sergeants Mess, Staff Sergeant Dave Marsh, is thinking of joining Equity. He is currently involved in Mess entertainment, wives club pantomime and docs a good line in Remembrance Sunday Church Services. Finally, babies are booming! At the moment the score is: Little boys five, little girls two. Congratulations to Staff Sergeant Ladley, Sergeant Bricn, Corporals Brown an"d Tarr, Lance Corporals Laing and Kingham, Private Purkins and their wives on the births of their babies. On the promotion front, congratulations go to Staff Sergeant Dudley REME, Sergeants Gavaghan, Salt and Wood, Corporals Daniel, Christopher, Gray, Lister and Small, Lance Corporals Elliott ACC, Scott-Ker and Walmsley. Welcome to: WOl Lawrence, Sergeants McMencmy and Hassall, Sergeants Dudley REME and Kirby, Corporal Ruddock, Lance Corporals Bargrovc, Kingham ACC, Marson, Scaife and Wells REME, Privates Brown, Hatterslcy, Tait and Thom. 15 Ordnance Croup HEADQUARTERS THE Commander-in-Chief BAOR, General Sir William Scotter accompanied by Lady Scotter has visited the various RAOC and other Units in the Viersen Complex. After an initial briefing he was conducted around the Inventory Control Point and the Ordnance Depot Viersen, visiting also the Planning and Work Study Unit RAOC and the Accommodation Services Unit RAOC Rhine Area. He presented Long Service and Good Con- duct Medals to Sergeants J. W. E. Fryer and P. W. John in the Viersen RAOC Sergeants Mess. Photo Staff Sergeant Kimpton. The C - i n - C BAOR at Viersen with Sergeant and Mrs John right and Sergeant and Mrs Fryer to his left. Lady Scotter accompanied the Hon Mrs E. R. Edwards on a tour which included the Viersen Kindergarten, the section of the Returned Stores Group of Ordnance Depot Viersen con- cerned with the manufacture of curtains and carpets and the Alpine Restaurant, in which she met members of the Viersen Wives Club. She also visited 89 Supply Depot where she was j given a demonstration of butchery and other commodities. We ! like to think that the hospitality she was given was warmer than i the embient temperature for the day. ORDNANCE DEPOT VIERSEN FOR the first time in its history, our Unit Rugby team, the Viersen Badgers, boasts its own clubhouse, complete with showers, dressing room, bar and lounge. Although the loss of players like RSM Jock Black, Sergeant Joe Bodham and Corporal Ray Walton would weaken most teams, postings in and the improvement of some of our younger players have seen the Badgers holding their own. Having its own home pitch and clubhouse has raised the spirit and morale immensely and > player membership has risen to two teams. Badgers and ! Casuals. At the end of last season it was difficult enough to raise one team, let alone two. A new Badgers jumper and tie have been designed and are awaiting production. And what about results? Well, it's early days yet but we have knocked |
| Book number | R0403a |