RAOC Gazette - page 132
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| Corps | RAOC |
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| Material type | Journals |
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| Full title | RAOC Gazette |
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| Publication date | 1980 |
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| Colour | Yes |
| Grey | No |
| Early date | 1980 |
| Late date | 1980 |
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1906 1980 THE ROYAL ARMY ORDNANCE CORPS GAZETTE VOLUME 61 No. 11 APRIL 1980 THE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ARMY ORDNANCE CORPS AND ARMY ORDNANCE SERVICES AND THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE RAOC ASSOCIATION Editor: COLONEL E. RIDGEWAY, OBE (Rctd.) M A J O R GENERAL, B R O W N IS APPOINTED DIRECTOR GENERAL OF O R D N A N C E SERVICES MAJOR GENERAL J. BROWN took up the post of Director General of Ordnance Services on 15th March 1980 in succession to Major General M. Callan, CB. General Brown joined the Army as a trooper in the Royal Tank Regiment in 1947. He entered the Royal Military' Academy Sandhurst later that year and was commissioned into the Royal Army Ordnance Corps in December 1948. After one year with RAOC, he was detached to the 1st Battalion Duke of Wellington's Regiment, in which he served in various appointments from Platoon Commander to Adjutant between 1950 and 1952. On returning to RAOC he was posted to Egypt, to the 1st Division Ordnance Field Park and 1st Guards Brigade Workshop. He served at Headquarters Cyprus District as a Staff Captain from 1954 to 1956, before returning to the War Office in a Staff Captains post. In 1959 he attended the Staff College course at Camberley and on completion was posted to Headquarters 1st Division in Germany as Staff Captain Q(Ops). He returned to the War Office in October 1960 as a DAQMG(Qtg) for two years and was subsequently posted to the School of Ordnance as an Instructor. He remained there until April 1964, when he became Secretary to one of the Macleod Reorganisation Sub-Committees. Following that appointment he attended the Joint Services Staff College and on completion of the course was posted as DAA and QMG Headquarters 51 Gurkha Infantry Brigade in Borneo. In May 1966 he returned to the Ministry of Defence as DAAG AG9, dealing with careers and postings of RAOC Officers. In November 1967 he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and posted as CRAOC 4th Division in Germany. He remained — 333 Major General J . Brown, Director General of Ordnance Services. in Germany as AA and QMG (Ops and Plans) Headquarters 1st British Corps until February 1972; he was then pro- moted Colonel and returned to the United Kingdom as Senior Provision Officer, Central Ordnance Depot Donnington. As a result of a reorganisation the latter post was redesignated Colonel Equipment Division CICP RAOC Bicester and he served there until early April 1975. He was promoted Brigadier in April 1975 on posting to MOD(A) as Deputy Director Ordnance Services. He attended the Royal College of Defence Studies in 1976 and on completion of that course, was posted as Deputy Director Personal Services (Army) early in 1977 the post he left last month to become DGOS. THE COVER PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN at Grib Goch on Snowdon by a party from Chilwell during a break in the climb. In the foreground is Captain Hawthorne, leading the group, with Private Swiderski facing the camera. Good cover photographs are always in short supply. Why not try to produce one. Remember that they should be black and white, taken vertically—and try to leave some clear space, such as sky, for the titling. — |
| Book number | R0403a |