RAOC Gazette - page 38
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| Corps | RAOC |
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| Full title | RAOC Gazette |
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| Publication date | 1980 |
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| Colour | Yes |
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| Early date | 1980 |
| Late date | 1980 |
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The LSL has just arrived on its yearly programme for Christmas. Our new CQMS Staff Sergeant Ben Carr thought best keep out of the way by watching it dock. In the mean- time W02 Chris Hadfield was unloading his containers by hand due to the fact both our forks were VOR. Mr Phillips and Mr Mennan now have a choice of chairs to sit on or beds to sleep on. Staff Sergeant Rick Warner and Corporal Danny Kay have just left us after arranging the Ammo unload/load of the LSL. Our recent wives club dinner in the Orchid Room was well supported by thirty four members. The wine flowed 1 fast, the food went down heavily and the treasurer Laura Manders is still washing up! British Forces Belize WE are sad to report the medical evacuation of our Force Ordnance Officer, Major Derrick Eve and we hope that he makes a speedy recovery in UK. His temporary replacement is Major Roger Bensaid from the Petroleum Centre, West Moors. By the time this goes to print we will have welcomed the new Force Ordnance Officer, Major Carl Dicker. It's all lies that our AT Sergeant Dave Gough taught his ammo compound guard geese to make a sound rather like a pigeon for the COOs recent visit! He has been seen experiment- ing with detonators—surely he is not going to kill, pluck and cook them for Christmas all in one foul movement-—sorry about the puns! Our ' WOs Three' have been doing a lot of travelling recently. W02 Jackson, the food expert who weighs about fourteen stone dry', fixed himself a nice trip to Mexico City to look at the fresh fruit and veg supply system, or so he says. Bringing back a bag of grapes for the Force Ordnance Officer is a poor substitute for the full written report on the visit. W02 Major (our FOWO) and W02 Lewis (our FATWO) don't bother with handovers now; they prefer helicopters. We will have to rig them out with a desk if they are to keep up with their paperwork. Recent departures have been Major Cliff Scott and Force Quartermaster and his family after eighteen long months, also Sergeants Les Pearce. Matt Helm, Mat Boyd, Bob Hood. Bob Taylor; Corporals Clive Walker. Frenchie de St Croix, Terry Moore; also Lance Corporals Paddy O'Keefe and John Anderson —we nearly forgot Private Taffy Hazell. In their places we welcome Sergeants McGurk, Crowshaw, and Ryder, Corporal Wooley, Lance Corporal Thompson and Private Wilson. A special welcome is extended to Captain Tony Fumeaux- Harris, a Force Watchkeeper for three months and Lieutenant Chris Gwilliam our super numerary subaltern. Congratulations to W02 Arscott and Sergeant Walker on the award of his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal. Captain Peter Veal recently made an all expenses paid visit to UK to give a presentation on Belize to the DGOS Study Period for 1979—we wonder what he is going to get up to as he was seen carrying a Mexican hat as he boarded the VC10. He also plans to spend three days in Washington on the return trip—some people have all the luck! We end with a promise from Corporal Terry Leefare, our hard working storehouse Corporal, he guarantees that on his next organised Cayes Trip nobody will get wet—he's chartered a submarine! FOR THE TO PAKISTAN . . . . BY BAGPIPE (Continued from page 245) Peshawar. Whilst in this historical city we visited its rightly famous copper market and pottery and also had the good fortune to be taken to a carpet factory by a manufacturer. Here, we saw some thirty young lads hand-making the carpets, which. (like those of Persia), arc world famous. Cross legged they sat, with their hands weaving faster than these occidental eyes could follow. He also showed us some fine examples of furniture beautifully inlayed with Camel bone, when tea was served in his house. The trip through the Khybcr was as breathtaking as we had anticipated. The whole image of service on the North West Frontier was easily created in the mind, just as ' Fort Life ' was similarly apparent. The Khybcr, is of course, still very much a troubled area representing, as it docs, a passage of freedom to Afghanis who need to pass through these towering foothills of the Himalayas. The North Western Service I men- tioned a moment ago was the teething ground of our mentor, Brigadier Ken Came, who arrived at the Khybcr Rifles Fort as an officer cadet; but then travelling to India with him. (he told me), was one: M. Callan. Clearly I should have not done my officer cadet training in this country! And then: we came home. R. J. P. DON'T READ THIS IN SOMEONE ELSE'S COPY. ORDER THE GAZETTE TODAY AND HELP TO IMPROVE YOUR OWN MAGAZINE A REMINDER OF SUMMER ON page 210 of last month's GAZETTE we reported on the past cricket season in BAOR. Below is a photograph we were unable to publish in that issue of one of the Corps represen- tative teams in 1979. RECORD I GLEAN most of the material for this section of THE GAZETTE from either talking to people or by extracting suitable pieces from Unit newsletters. I would, however, be grateful for any short, chatty, newsy items that you feel might have a general interest or be worthy of permanent record. They can be with or without a photo- graph—though preferably with. I would like this part of Tun GAZETTE to become a forum for keeping all ranks of the Corps in the picture of what of a serious—and not so serious nature, is going on. You know the sort of thing—did you see in THE GAZETTE that"] Things are happening every day—send them in, I am sure that others will be interested. Editor. RAOC vs. BERLIN GOC X I Right to Sergeant Hingston Major — 263 — left back: Sergeant Clark, Lance Corporal Dickenson, Davison, Sergeant Croves, Corporal Simmons, Lieutenant Jones. Front: Captain Taylor, Staff Sergeant Smith, Thomas, Corporal Johnson, Lance Corporal Celling. |
| Book number | R0403a |