RAOC Gazette - page 178
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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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narrowly lost and we even recorded some wins. However, morale could quickly be restored by inviting them to play with our ball and so enable us to turn the tables and win handsomely. Despite a freak snow storm, which caused the temperature to fall to twenty two degrees below zero, all matches were played and the team managed to get in a little sight seeing on the last day in the hired Pontiac Safari gas guzzler. Our thanks to Lieutenant Colonel Mike Carey REMIX and his wife Jane for accommodating Majors Woodliftc. Champion and Brett and WOl Linnane and to Major Rodger Davy and his wife Lindsay for accommodating Staff Sergeants Wallis. Mc- Quilkan and Maclean. the South East District Championships, and the Officers Veterans Cross Country, held on a wet and muddy day at Arborfield. The ages of competitors in the events ranged from real veterans of sixty one down to ' youngsters,' and the Training Centre team success rested on Colonel John Gregan (fortieth), and Major Robin Watts (eighth) and Major Malcolm Bryant (second), who had a combined age of one hundred and forty six years. Every competitor started one minute after the eldest starter for every year below his age, so for over half an hour groups of runners set off on the nine kilometre course. The RAOC Training Centre will be hosts next year. Runners in the Officers Veterans race included Colonel Gregan, Captains Andy Jelly, Mike Bott RAEC, Terry Bunyard REME, Majors Chris Brightman, Dennis Ford, Robin Watts, Malcolm Bryant and Bob McLagan. The runners who represented Training Centre in the Dis- trict and Army finals were: Major Brightman, Captains Jelly, Matheson REME (District only), Walcroft, Lieutenants Bott RAEC, Shepherd REME, Sergeant Gordon (Army only), Corporals Hollows, HIadkij, Hawkins, Lance Corporal Woolaston (District only) and Private McGill*(Army only). TRAINING LOT OF SIvI WIN- Photo Staff Sergeant E. L. Christie. Major Malcolm Bryant who finished in second place crossing the line. -WHAT A CENTRE TRAINING CENTRE Ski Team successfully competed against five other RAOC ski teams to win the Corps Inter-Unit Ski Championships at Aviemore. Most teams and individuals had been training for some ten days prior to the Regular Army Race. competitive spirit was high, and on the day, it was luck as well as skill, that won through. Ski-ing conditions were a mixture of polished ice and soft snow which made the Giant Slalom race course difficult to negotiate. Training Centre won with a combined time of six minutes and three seconds with the Central Vehicle Depot second. Sergeant Mollison and Captain Mobley also came second and third respectively in the Individual RAOC Ski Championship. The Training Centre Ski T e a m . Back row: W 2 Stuart Madden, Captain Brian Mobley, Staff Sergeant Len Moore and front row: Sergeant Pete Mollison, W / L a n c e Corporal Sue Mitchell and Private Alex Somerville. BULL, ONE afternoon recently, 89 Supply Depot received a visitor. A real bull person—no, not a new Provost Sergeant—a real live bull\ The animal had broken into the Depot lines after having escaped from the local slaughter house which backs on to the Depot. The bull, was accompanied by a host of cowboys—or bullyboys (some definitely not friendly, had guns'.) all trying to catch him. Some ninety minutes passed before the animal was secured and led back to his fate but not before trampling on Staff Sergeant Paul Thayre's left foot. A very impressionable beast. ARMY SWIMMING W A N T E D — SUPPLY CLERKS THE Corps is very short of Supply Clerks. Opportunities exist for a number of Sergeants and below from other Career Em- ployment Groups to become Supply Clerks. The great advantage to individuals is the promotion prospect to senior NCO and warrant rank. There are ninety seven warrant officer class one Supply Clerks compared with thirty seven Supply Specialists, yet the Supply Specialist roll is twice as large as the Supply Clerk roll. Applications will be considered from any RAOC Career Employment Group. You can find out how to change your Career Employment Group from your Unit orderly room. C O R P S S Q U A S H T E A M S VISIT TO W A S H I N G T O N D C SEVEN Corps players were met at Dulles International Air- port, Washington, by Major Rodger Davy to begin a five day squash playing visit. Matches were arranged against teams from the Pentagon, the US Naval Academy, Annapolis out on Chesa- peake Bay and the University Club and the Metropolitan Club, the latter two being civilian clubs in the heart of Washington. Our players found it most difficult to adjust to the hard, bouncing American ball although many games were only — OFFICIAL THE manager, trainer, coach, guide and mentor of Donnington's very successful swimming team, W02 Gordon Lumsden, has been appointed to the Executive Committee of the Army Swim- ming Union with special responsibility for Swimming Officials. Not only is this a great personal achievement but also an honour for the Corps and the Unit that he should be the first Warrant Officer to be so appointed. 373 — |
| Book number | R0403a |