RAOC Gazette - page 173
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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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lUtorb MAJOR GENERAL SIR LANCELOT CUTFORTH, KBE, CB IT is with regret that we have to record the death on the 7th April, of Major General Sir Lancelot Cutforth, a former Director of Ordnance Services and Colonel Commandant of the Corps. An obituary will be published in next months issue of Tur. GAZETTE. DULMENS CROSS COUNTRY Y E A R OF SUCCESS A HARD summer of preparation, which included a most successful athletic season, culminated in the Cross Country Team travelling to Fulda in the Rhone Valley Foothills to enter the second annual US Cavalry half Marathon on 1st September. Dulmen beat seventy teams to take the military team trophy. This win was quickly followed on 29th September by the traditional opener to the BAOR Cross Country season the Bismarck Relay in Herford, when Dulmen won the title for the second consecutive year beating the Great Britain Biathlon Squad by over one minute, Sergeant Binks recording the fastest lap. A four man team contested the Army Cross Country Relay Championships at Sandhurst on 10th November, winning the Minor Unit competition for the second consecutive year being overall runners up to 4 Field Regiment RA who fielded three full international runners in their four man team. After a third successive win in the Rhine Area cham- pionships, which was to be Captain Jelly's last major "race for Dulmen, the team travelled to Korbecke on 5th December and successfully defended the BAOR Minor Units championships also for the third successive year, Sergeant Binks becoming BAOR champion for the second year. The normal Rhine Area/RAF (G) League programme con- tinued through to 16th January when Dulmen won the RAOC BAOR title for the fourth consecutive year and the following week travelled to Blackdown to take the RAOC UK Cham- pionships for the third time, narrowly beating Captain Jelly's Training Centre A Team, Sergeant Binks breaking the course record in both RAOC events. After a further three weeks of concentrated training the team returned yet again to UK for the Army Championships at Twecslcdown. Although the prc-race forecast was not in Dul- mens favour the team ran out winners by a two point margin from REME Depot Arborficld after one of the closest finishes for many years thus retaining the Army Minor Units trophy for the third consecutive year. The 1979/80 season closed with Dulmen taking the RAF(G) Rhine Area League Minor Unit Trophy for the third year with Sergeant Binks fittingly league champion. Well done Dulmen. WE WIN THE A R M Y RUGBY CUP FOR THE FIRST TIME 3 BASE AMMUNITION DEPOT has won the Army Rugby Football Challenge Cup for the Corps, for the first time, by beating the Royal Regiment of Wales in a very exciting game at Scnnclagcr—by the narrow margin of ten points to nine. A full report of this fine achievement will be in next months GAZETTE. Though we have previously got very close to taking the cup—congratulations to 3 BAD on this time pulling it off. DOS BAOR OPENS DULMEN YOUTH CLUB ONE HUNDRED young people from Gremmendorf, Hamm and Senden Youth Clubs attended the official opening of the Dulmen Station Youth Club. The club moved into their new premises last December and since then, the members have been engaged in planning, and assisting PSA and Depot Services, in preparing the club to their own specifications. Dulmen Youth Club has a membership of some seventy youngsters aged between eleven and nineteen. The club is well attended and offers a variety of interests to members. Table tennis, pool and table football are very popular and. when the Brigadier Crawley with WOl Crcenhousc opens the Dulmen Youth Club. W02 Dave Towers-Clark leading by a short distance from Corporal Steve Lonnen at Deepcut. evenings are long, volleyball, badminton and swingball are played, with great enthusiasm, on the lawn adjacent to the club. All the members are very proud of their football team. W02 Eddie Mason and Staff Sergeant Don Miller coach and coax the team. The club encourages Anglo-German relations and recently entertained Nottuln FC to a football match. It is worthy of note that the Nottuln team manager, Herr Walter Reidegeld, is employed as a painter in Forward Ordnance Depot Dulmen and was responsible for the superb interior decoration of the new Youth Club. WOl and Mrs Greenhouse are the club leaders. — 370 — |
| Book number | R0403a |