RAOC Gazette - page 49
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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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| Early date | 1980 |
| Late date | 1980 |
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SQUASH TOUR OF BAOR THE Corps Squash Team will be touring BAOR in late March 1980. Various matches have been arranged in Hamburg, Hannover, Bielefeld, Dusscldorf, Maastricht and RhcindaMcn. Coaching clinics will be held at Vcrdcn, Hannover, Bielefeld and Rheindahlen and it is hoped that as many squash players as possible will be able to attend. Details may be obtained from Major T. C. K. Ridley Ord 4. Headquarters BAOR, Major N. C. Brown, SSO Hannover and WOl F. J. Linnane, Headquarters 1 (BR) Corps. A B E R L I N FIRST FOR THE CYPRUS WALKABOUT WE WIN THE SQUASH ARMY INTER-CORPS CHAMPIONSHIPS THE Corps entered the Army Inter-Corps squash championship as hot favourites to win for the second year in succession and we did not disappoint the forecasters. Determined to retain the title we fielded our full team which consisted of Staff Sergeants Robbie .Robinson from Rheindahlen and David Bradley from Bracht; Major John Woodliffe from Ashchurch; WO I Frank Linnane from Headquarters 1 (BR) Corps; Major Ted Champion from the Apprentices College and Staff Sergeant John Wallis from TSAB, as sixth man. AN Ordnance Services Berlin team successfully completed the Cyprus Walkabout competition. (See the December GAZETTE). The team was the first team ever from Berlin to be represented in the famous Walkabout. The members were Major Brian Page, Captain Martin Tracy and WOl Pat Moore. They are shown in the photograph receiving their Certificates of Merit from Brigadier McMicking, Commander Berlin Field Force. The Berlin Walkabout- team get their Cyprus 1979 certificates. CROSS COUNTRY The Corps T e a m . Over the three days they scored impressive victories over the opposition. The Royal Engineers and the Royal Artillery were both beaten four one and the APTC and the REME each suffered five nil defeats. The Championship was won by an unprecedented twenty six points out of a possible twenty eight. Bradley won all his matches three nil, and rumour has it that he was seen actually totting up the number of points he lost. Robinson, Linnane and Champion conceded only two games each throughout the whole weekend. The strength and remarkable depth of the Corps team dominated the Championship to the delight of Major General Stanyer, the Representative Colonel Commandant, and Colonel Skinner, Chairman of Army and RAOC squash, who were both there to see the trophy presented by Major General Vickers, Commandant RMA Sandhurst. SQUASH VISIT TO CHAMPION OUR congratulations to Corporal ' Mick' Binks of Forward Ordnance Depot Dulmen on retaining both his BAOR and Rhine Area individual Cross Country Championships. He has also finished as the second Army runner home in two inter- national races—in Belgium and at the Crystal Palace. CORPS CRICKET LIEUTENANT COLONEL G. B. HOPKINSON, CRAOC. Northern Ireland, has assumed the appointment of Chairman of the RAOC Cricket Sub-Committee vice Colonel J. M. Alway. Revelant details on page 56 of the Corps List should be amended accordingly. THE DGOS FITNESS CHALLENGE TO T H E OVER FORTIES THE undermentioned have successfully completed the 1979 challenge:—Lieutenant Colonel C. E. G. Hellis, Corps Troops; Captain A. Parry, Corps Troops. USA THE Corps Squash Team has been invited to Washington DC in late February 1980 for a short visit. Matches have been arranged against a military team from the Pentagon and civilian teams from the National Capitol Squash Association. SPORTSMAN OF THE MONTH WHY not write up your Unit sportsman of the month and send it to THE GAZETTE. About three hundred words with black and white photograph—if possible. — 270 — |
| Book number | R0403a |