RAOC Gazette - page 89
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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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§ Centre, at Frimlcy, Surrey. The ACF however needs one thousand five hundred more officers and adult instructors, male and female, and a major aim of the film is to attract suitable people. The ACF traces its tradition back to the 1860s when the first impromptu cadet companies were formed by young people, emulating their fathers at a time of threatened French invasion. The modern ACF however is continually evolving; and the most recent innovation last autumn was the concept of mixed boy and girl detachments at Units in schools. Produced for the MOD by the Central Office of Informa- tion, the film is available from the Central Film Library, Brom- yard Avenue, Acton, London W3 7JB. fox tfje FLOATING ASSETS OUR photograph is of a Belize Ammunition Compound at Ladyville near Airport Camp Belize City, which was recently flooded to a depth of four and a half feet following severe rain storms when the nearby Belize River burst its banks. Surprisingly very little ammunition was damaged thanks to the prompt actions of W02 Lewis, Sergeant Gough and Corporal Purkins who make up the Belize RAOC Ammunition Section. CENTURIAN CENTREPIECE SOME years ago, the Graven Hill Sergeants Mess at Bicester established a silver fund and, once this was strong enough, a committee to purchase a centrepiece was established, comprising: W02 Jack Strachan of DSCS, Staff Sergeant Fred Downie RPC and Sergeant Skid Rowe RAPC. They contacted John Willmin, a Buckinghamshire crafts- man and Fellow of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths. He, with the assistance of local historians and the ever-helpful Bodleian Library at Oxford, established that the 2nd Augustan Legion served in the Bicester area prior to their posting to Germany. (A whimsical link with today). Some armour of the 2nd Augustan Legion was found at Oberaden, in Germany, and it is in that image that Mr Willmin crafted his piece. Ammunition storage problems in Belize. N E W BOOST FOR THE A R M Y CADET FORCE A MAJOR new initiative to promote the Army Cadet Force, and to attract more adult leaders, has been launched by the Ministry of Defence. The drive centres around a specially com- missioned film, titled 'Army Cadet.' The film was introduced recently at a preview by General Sir Robert Ford, the Ad- jutant General. Mr Barney Heyhoe, MP, Under Secretary of State for Defence for the Army headed a guest list of over one hundred and fifty distinguished industrialists, businessmen, church leaders and other public figures. Representatives of the Army and Army Cadets included Major General John Foster, Director of Territorial Army and Army Cadets, Major General The Earl Cathcart, and General Sir Antony Read, respectively the President and the Chairman of the Army Cadet Force Association. The film, which lasts twenty five minutes, features the range of cadet activities against a background of interview with ACF Officers and adult instructors, and will be available for free circulation. The ACF is an entirely voluntary organisa- tion, sponsored by the Army, and run by people from all walks of civilian life. Its aim is to develop among its members ' the qualities of good citizenship and the spirit of service to Queen and Country.' It achieves this by providing adventurous training, and stimulating an interest in the Army, its skills and role in national life. There are currently forty four thousand cadets, aged between thirteen and eighteen, spread among one thousand six hundred detachments in sixty nine counties. They are led by some eight thousand adults, who receive instruction at the Cadet Training A link with the past This was then made personal to the Mess by the enamelling of the shield to reflect the Bicester Garrison Crest in royal blue and gold, over that of the Graven Hill Sergeants Mess, in scarlet and silver. This interesting and dramatic example of the silversmith's art is further enhanced by being set on to a plinth of local, Cotswold stone. THE CASE OF THE EXPLOSIVE BRIEF THIS is a true story only the names have been changed. For Mr F. O. Alpha the day started much in the same as any other day in Ulster; he put on his raincoat thinking to himself " it's only rained once in this month from the first to the fifteenth." He picked up his briefcase, kissed the cat, pulled the door to and went off on his business of inspecting Units, in fact he had a very successful morning, so successful that he returned to the office after lunch. For Mr Bravo the morning had been the usual push all the files out of the In tray into the Pending tray and back again, a few telephone calls, and the odd cup of NATO coffee, then — 302 — |
| Book number | R0403a |