RAOC Gazette - page 187
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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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Many Apprentices learned that it is possible to upright a What more appropriate than that his final departure capsized canoe in raging ice-cold sea water before the shock should be in a golf buggy driven by two of our pretty girls. permanently halts breathing—but only just. Others learned that (Need we add that the leg display came in for some ungentle- a pea-soup fog can take you by surprise on Exmoor, that driving manly comments!). rain chills you to the bone and that the compass doesn't lie. We feel that the occasion was somewhat unique in that Others still learned that Exmoor ponies can sum up novice Colonel Logan for once in his career did as he was instructed. riders at a glance and place them in two categories—those who We wish him well for the future and can only hope that his arc going to ride home and those who will walk. handicap, the golf one, gets reduced as a result of his being able to spend more (?) time on the golf course. The map reading, shooting, assault course and orienteering We welcome Colonel Bryan Hopkinson from Northern activities were run as an infer-platoon competition. In a close Ireland and offer our congratulations on his promotion. We finish, Burma Platoon took the Inter-Platoon Challenge Shield. can only hope that he finds Blackdown a little more peaceful A/Lance Corporal Skinner and A/Privates Mock, Pib- and relaxing than Lisburn. We shall no doubt, at a suitable worth, Eveleigh, Haywood and Rigby left camp early in order time, be inculcated into the meanings of the raising and lower- to take part in a forty mile cross-country navigation exercise. ing of his MCC and black ties. It is to their great credit that the first three completed twenty five miles and the second three thirty eight miles before retiring Captain Peter Claughton recently captained the Corps through exhaustion—especially as out of seventy three teams rugby side which beat REME in the Palestine Cup for the first starting, only twenty eight managed to finish. time in fifteen years. Captain Brian Mobley, the team captain of the Training On return from camp the Company was equally successful Centre ski team, and W02 Stuart Madden have been in Avie- in taking the honours at the College skill-at-arms competition. more training for and competing in the Army Ski Champion- Brunei Platoon took the SLR cup and Burma Platoon the SMG ships. After braving the elements and obtaining a disgusting cup. A/Private Davcy (Brunei) took the individual SLR prize tan they returned with a pot of silver having been part of the and A/Private Rabbidge (Burma) the individual SMG prize. team which won the RAOC Inter-Unit Downhill Champion- , The standard of shooting was laudable considering the appalling ship. Captain Brian Mobley and W02 Stuart Madden came weather. third and sixth respectively in the RAOC Individual Cham- Not satisfied with these successes, the Company went on pionship and also obtained high individual and team placings in to win the basketball competition (Balaclava Platoon first team) the Army. and the College Orienteering Competition (Bruneval Platoon). Our golf team has been strengthened by the arrival of All in all a highly successful month and this in spite of Major Henry Lucas from Bracht and our squash and tennis keen competition from our greatest adversaries—'A' Company teams by the arrival of Major John Woodliffe from Ashchurch. and the weather. Sergeant Cerqua has arrived on attachment from the Royal Anglians prior to transfer to the Corps and Lance Corporal TRAINING BATTALION AND DEPOT Edwards has joined us from Viersen. TRAINING COMPANY is in the news this month. Readers may have heard that recruiting is on the up and up. This is APPRENTICES COLLEGE good news from a Corps point of view and Units, we know, HEADQUARTERS. This term has been the term for the will be looking forward to seeing these newly joined soldiers College shooting competition. It was a very wet and snowy to boost up their currently low strength and spread the work- three days on Ash Ranges, but the standards achieved were load a bit. Platoons pass out from us every three weeks: high. The only problem that we encountered was deciding there are five platoons in training at the moment, totalling close whether or not a one hundred and sixty pound tent would fit a to two hundred recruits. These will be on their svay to you in part of the centre section of a marquee! (due course but, in order to train them up to the standard you Now to the sunny side of things, we would like to con- want, we must have good MTIs. What's an MTI do I hear gratulate first of all Corporal Jim Ward on his promotion to Sergeant and also on his three month tour to Rhodesia. Con- gratulations also to Lance Corporal Don Constable on his promotion to Corporal. Welcome to the College Corporal Bill Gibson and Corporal Nobby Clarke. 'A' COMPANY. The highlight has been our annual Spring Camp at Fremington near Barnstable, Devon. During our week's stay various adventurous activities with a military flavour were practised, including parascending, rock climbing, surf canoeing and practical map reading exercises. The all im- portant factor, the weather, was initially kind to us and some of our number even managed to catch the sun while out cliff-walking, while the surf canoeists were too immersed to even notice the cloudless skies. On the sporting front, our College football team, which is well represented both in players and trainers from 'A' Com- pany, played in the semi-final of the South East District Junior football cup against the ACC Apprentices College, Aldershot. In a match full of excitement and good football, the score at the end of ordinary time was three all, after extra time four all and, in a finale of penalties we eventually lost, but what a game and one which neither side deserved to lose. A week later as if to take revenge on the ball, we blasted thirteen goals past ' D ' Company AAC Arborfield, with A/Lance Corporal Parker of Aden Platoon top scorer with four goals to his credit. Captain Doug Matheson REME, unfortunately wrote off his car on the return from half term leave, but we are pleased to report that he is relatively unscathed. He is however, not lost for wheels and has resorted to his second line transport, a Humber Pig, which is perhaps a more appropriate mode of conveyance in the present state of alert. Finally, congratulations to Lieutenant Graham Moore REME. Our sincere best wishes to you Graham and to your fiancee. ' B ' COMPANY. Our highlight was also the Company Camp at Fremington in North Devon. The weather ranged from the sublime to the ' cor blimey,' but adventure training continued throughout. W ALTER BARGERY LTD • Printers of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps Gazette • 162 WESTMINSTER B R I D G E ROAD LONDON SE1 7 R R 01-928 6840 198 D R A K E F E L L R O A D , B R O C K L E Y , SE4 01-639 5237 380 — |
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