RAOC Gazette - page 193
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| Publication date | 1980 |
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' Stella.' 'A' Company also welcomes back W02 Roger Hubbard and Staff Sergeant Ron Strafford from Northern Ire- land, Corporal 'Ginger' Carrahar from Waltham Abbey and Corporal Andy Warriss in a Parka from Zimbabwe/Rhodesia. W02 Hubbard has taken up a new appointment as WOIC Depot Support and is affectionately known to all as the Unit ' Truss.' Our congratulations go to Corporals Islam, Kettle, Sanson and Rupert (the well known typing error) Trude on successfully passing their upgrading course. Farewells this month go to W02, or is it Lieutenant Mick Watkins, Sergeant Pete Snell, Corporals Pete Hurry, Tony Britt and Shamus O'Brien, Privates Crook, Tomlinson and Riley on postings/detachment. Our band of Small Bore Shooters continue to prosper even though the OIC Captain Lou Bean seems to be going thro' a bad patch. Corporal Geoff Palir won the Macrea Handicap competition as the most improved shooter and is looking for even more time off for shooting now that his SATO Major McDermott and both ATOs Captains Brown and Moules have taken up the art! Most competitions are drawing to a close and there is some nailbiting going on as we await the results of final rounds. Our girls in the WRAC have been doing things this month that warrant mentions: W/Privates Brown, Edgcombc, Brown- sword, Dineen and Pickard ran for the District in the Interzone Cross Country Championships at Aldershot where they finished third. A ' First' for WRAC occurred when W/Private Crawshaw passed the trade test to gain the additional qualification of Rail Car Driver! Another first is about to be achieved with the acceptance by and the attendance of three WRAC namely Staff Sergeant Mullany, Lance Corporal Joyce and W/Private Nicholls on a Storeman Ammunition Course at the AS of A this month—When will all this encroachment cease? Stop Press 1 . We lost to Bicester in the Richards Cup semi- final by two goals to one. Never mind there's always next year'. Central Vehicle Depot FIRST and foremost we welcome Mrs Betty Crooks back to Registry after some three months sick leave. Curiously she entered hospital only days after I had reported her as ' alive and well' in this column. Due to the requests for anonymity received over the past weeks, quite clearly, the two events are not unconnected in some minds. Major John Woodliffe kindly agreed to break his inter- national squash tour and return from Washington to Germany via Ashchurch in order to be dined out. Never a man to shirk his duty. John leaves us after three years (or thirty two working days) depending upon how you measure it. Had we had longer to get to know him we would have been sorry to lose him. How- ever, he has thoughtfully left his wife and family behind to remind us that he actually was here. More seriously, we thank both Terry and John for their contribution to life at Ashchurch in so many ways over the past three years and wish them well at Blackdown. VEHICLE DEPOT HILTON THE Friday morning sounds which arc similar to a jet engine being run in the corridor and which arc, in fact, produced by our cleaning ladies' vacuum cleaners have intensified in volume indicating that Sally Smith is now back in the fold and teamed up with Enid. Nice to see you back, Sally. Welcome back also, to Gillian Monk, her injured foot has now recovered sufficiently to permit her to resume her duties as messenger thus allowing Norman to return to his beloved gardens. Not a moment too soon if they are to be nurtured through the blossoming season of Spring. The ladies arc forming the nctball team in readiness for MODRA Sports in July. Our girls may not be strongest—we have not entered for the ladies tug-of-war—but we reckon they arc the prettiest, a photo will be offered to prove our point some time in the future. (We look forward to it.— Editor). Farewell and good luck to Mrs Jackie Hackett who has retired for the time being at least, to the local area. We still see her from time to time. Management Services Unit THIS has been the period of inspections and visits and thus things that move have been dusted and things that stand still have been painted! Leading our list of VIPs was Brigadier Cowdry; two days later we received Lieutenant General Sir George Cooper, GOC South East District then it was the turn of Major General Hellier, Major General Administration Head- quarters UKLF, to visit our portals. We now look forward to hosting Brigadiers Smith and Berresford, COO and COO designate, during their handover. However visits are not just one way traffic. Our versatile Sccond-in-Command, Captain Ken Lawton, spent a week in BAOR to assist in the planning of a new Petroleum Depot. The drinks cabinet having been re-stocked he never-thc-less also burnt the midnight oil (!) whilst studying how petroleum pro- ducts should be stored. Our man at UKLF, WOl Jack Redfern, having successfully sorted out their problems is actually returning to Thatcham for a spell prior to his posting to Berlin. Having been with us in name for six months a route card was required to return him safely to base. VEHICLE DEPOT ASHCHURCH SPORTING activities are in the ascendancy at the moment. The small bore team are currently in first place in the District and two of our members, Corporal Chris Hadley and W02 Woods, are now members of the SOWDIST Team. Congratu- lations. Sergeant Campbell is vigorously training the Unit swimming team for the Corps gala in May and hopes to improve on the teams placing in last years competition. (We came second). Rugby is the sport that is currently doing so well. After a somewhat depleted season we now find ourselves deservedly in the SOWDIST final against the RAC Centre at Bovington. Best of luck everyone, we might get a very special mention in the next edition. Ashchurch was able to host the Corps XV earlier in March for a fixture against Tewkesbury Rugby Club. The Corps did better than was expected, a fact not unconnected with the plant- ing of Corporal ' Chalkie ' White in Tewkesburys front row! Those followers of our ' naughty bit column ' will be pleased to know that Ruby and a friend entertained us all in the Can- non Club. We thought there must have been a mistake as Ruby looked so young in her first act yet her friend managed to look so old in both of hers. We all commiserate with Ruby but hope she has learned from her errors—never invite close ' contact' with a front row forward who has not shaved for two days—even though the embrace was lubricated with shaving cream. 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