RAOC Gazette - page 114
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| Publication date | 1980 |
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| Early date | 1980 |
| Late date | 1980 |
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Dickie who successfully completed stringent tests to be awarded the German Proficiency Badge by the commander of the German battalion here. We wish a speedy recovery to Sergeant Brian Rider who is languishing in Wegberg Hospital with a back ailment. He is quoted as saying that it was not caused through the effort he put into his BFT, so that one wonders what he gets up to in his spare time!! We welcome W02 Ray Dewsnap, Staff Sergeants Andy Gourley and Laurie Wardell, Sergeants Mick Hockham and Phil James, Corporals Jim Shanks and Keith Davis. Congratulations go to Corporals Graham Page and Dave Tydeman on their recent marriages and we wish them and their wives well. Ammunition Inspectorate BAOR THIS month's notes are mainly occupied with comings and goings, those leaving being Captain Tony Jacques, Corporal Mac MacDonald and Private Scouse Williams. (RAOC Man- ning and Records must have decided to split up the Williams Quartet after reading our last GAZETTE notes). The trio were wined-out in good fashion in the Duck and Shovel, even before replacements had arrived. SATO has been out and about, now that he's found the combination to the ball and chain in his office there is no holding him. A brief visit to Hildesheim ammunition compound in sub zero temperatures was rewarded by promises of a superb Bratty- stall stopover on the road through Hameln. Unfortunately the Rat Catcher must have beaten us to it, the Schnell Imbiss had been towed away. Captain Andy Williams had similar troubles with Hameln this month, just as the buffet was announced one Saturday night, he was called away to a suspect cardboard box, and returned to crisps and a cheese roll. (We would like to thank the RMP for the well timed call, the DM20 is in the post). Newcomer to the Unit is Private Paul Thomas, all pink- faced and keen from The Factory at Blackdown. Once he gets used to humping beer upstairs to the club, we hope he'll have as good a tour as his predecessor Scouse. Absentee of the month is WOl Dave Young, taking it easy on a Pre-Operations course at the School of Ammunition before going to Northern Ireland, again! BFT reared its ugly head in January. With a superhuman effort, beer-and-Christmas-pud-infested bodies hurtled round Herford led by SATO in his seven league boots. A creditable pass rate was achieved with no cardiac arrests reported, we are saving those for the DLSA Specialist Inspection next month! 4 Petroleum Depot FIRSTLY we would like to welcome Mrs Chapman to BAOR and wish her a pleasant stay in Munster. A lot went on at 4 Petroleum Depot in the way of Christ- mas functions. First the Unit Christmas draw, when members of the Unit took pleasure in a few drops of the hard stuff, plus an excellent buffet which was provided by Herr Swill (W02 Hayward AAC) and his well qualified staff. Secondly the Children's Christmas Party went well, as this was a bilingual effort Santa arrived dressed as St Nicolas and after a few mix-ups with names St Santa (Sergeant Frank Jasper) managed to get through seventy kids with only one kiss, two kicks and several belts of abuse. The Depot Christmas dinner was the main event for the actual Depot Staff. Everyone who works within the perimeter fence sat down to a turkey and pork lunch. Wine was dis- tributed freely, as was beer. At one stage an owl was produced before the meal, but to dispel rumours it was turkey on the plates. One of the famous labourers had a little too much of the Christmas spirit but was well looked after by our para-firemen who discreetly took him away to enjoy a rest. The OC gave his Christmas message to all workers, which included Turks, Greeks, Portuguese, Germans, Polish, Afghans, Ethiopians, Scots, Welsh and English. Arrivals: Sergeant Jim Botterill, Lance Corporals Kerr and Bentley. Departures: Sergeant Jim Baker. 1 5 Ordnance Croup HEADQUARTERS 15 ORDNANCE GROUP was well represented at the traditional New Year's reception given by the town of Viersen for local dignitaries, which was held in the Viersen Festhalle in January. The picture shows from left to right, Herr W. Puetzschler MBE, Civil Labour Manager, Lieutenant Colonel J. A. S. Rees, Com- manding Officer Ordnance Depot Viersen, Brigadier General L. J. Christian, Deputy Commander and Chief of Staff of the German Territorial Nothern Command, Colonel E. R. Edwards, Commander 15 Ordnance Group and Lieutenant Colonel J. F. Shircliff, Controller of the Inventory Control Point. Ordnance Depot Antwerp THINGS have been slow to get moving on the sporting front; the only rugby match has been between a team drawn from the Officers and Sergeants Messes against a team of junior ranks (the latter having challenged their elders). Fortunately for this scribe, who wrote somewhat scathingly last month about the Unit team being over-dependant on the efforts of a few of the oldies, the junior ranks were beaten twenty seven to eighteen! The hockey team won their only game of the month, against a local Belgian side, but the soccer team went down (again!) in their only outing so far this year. One Friday afternoon recently most of the non-gladiators took their chances at basketball in an inter-department basket- ball competition. After a somewhat shaky start the typewriter- tappers from Headquarters ODA, including the CO and Ad- jutant, made their way into the final to beat a team from Technical Administration by six points to four. Although the standard of basketball wasn't going to threaten the future fame of the Harlem Globe Trotters it certainly did produce some really good laughs and some quite spectacular flukes (or were they?). Returned from their spells on Exercise Snow Queen have come Lance Corporals ' Yogi' Footitt and Neill Houghton and Private Tom Burgess. All seemed to enjoy themselves. Congratulations to Lance Corporal Ken Lomax and his wife on the birth of Glenn, and to Corporal and Mrs Tom Plunkett on the birth of Thomas. We welcome Corporals Horace Giles and family, Adrian Walters and family, and Private Tom Ives. (Regret your contribution arrived rather late.—Editor). A t the reception in the Viersen Festhalle. ORDNANCE DEPOT VIERSEN IN Viersen, there is a German Children's Home, called the Fanny Zahn Heim, which dedicates itself to the rehabilitation of those unfortunate children who have been caught up in the conflict of disturbed backgrounds. During the past thirteen years our Unit has sponsored this deserving organisation, and the Depot's staff have financed through voluntary contribution a variety of useful articles, toys and dolls furniture for the children's use, as well as a pony and trap. This year it was decided that two woodwork benches would be a practical and useful contribution in helping the children to help themselves, and they were duly manufactured. This month the finished work benches, completely fitted out with all the accoutrements, were handed over by Lieutenant Colonel Rees to the matron, Frau Doris Hoeft, in the presence of the Commander, Colonel Edwards and other representatives of the 1 — |
| Book number | R0403a |