RAOC Gazette - page 8
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| Corps | RAOC |
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| Full title | RAOC Gazette |
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| Publication date | 1983 |
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| Colour | Yes |
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| Early date | 1983 |
| Late date | 1983 |
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RETIREMENT OF LIEUTENANT COLONEL R. R. H O L L A N D , M B E , B E M LIEUTENANT COLONEL RAY HOLLAND retired from the Corps on 20th May 1983 after nearly twenty nine years service. Ray enlisted as a National Serviceman into RASC in September 1954. Before converting to regular service and eventual transfer to the Corps on Macleod in 1965. He was awarded the BEM in 1964. Ray reached WOl prior to being selected for SRC in January 1970. His appointments during commissioned service have been Adjutant Headquarters RAOC Corps Troops (Central), Headquarters AFCENT as Executive Officer, S02 Co-ord CSDW, OC FVD Recklinghausen and finally OIC 2 Sub-Depot COD Donnington. Ray was granted a regular commission in 1978 and promoted Lieutenant Colonel in 1980. In 1975 he was awarded the MBE. ONE STAR DRIVER DURING the recent Specialist Ammunition Inspection at 3 BAD, DLSA, Brigadier C. W. Smith GM, opened a new length of railway line which will be known as the Bruggen Spur. The Brigadier accompanied by Colonel Hopkinson the Commandant and Lieutenant Colonel Allen, Chief Ammunition Officer, opened the Spur by driving a locomotive down the length of the new line under the watchful eye of Captain Newis- Edwards, of 79 Railway Squadron RCT. Having successfully carried out his task the Brigadier was presented with a certificate headed: ' Technishen Waggon- schieben in Teilgeitbeshaftigung.' Work that one out! Opening the Bruggen Spur. Lieutenant Colonel Ray Holland leaves the Army in style. HAZARDOUS After a distinguished career he is retiring to the quiet of the Essex countryside where he has obtained employment with BLESMA. We wish him, Ruth and the children the best of health and happiness for the future. BACK FROM ALASKA CORPORAL ELSTUB has returned to Viersen from the frozen waste of Alaska where he assisted in the Annual Iditarod Trail" race. This is a dog team race from Anchorage to Nome a distance of one thousand and forty nine miles. There were sixty eight teams competing, each team having between nine and eighteen dogs plus the ' musher' guiding the sledge. Corporal Elstub's task could be described as anything and everything, in addition to travelling as ballast on sledges in the early stages, he assisted in monitoring positions, moving fifteen tons of dog food to various locations and also broadcast on Alaska radio | with update reports on the race. Welcome back to the warmth > and security of BAOR. GET THE MOST FROM YOUR POST WITH 11 Ordnance Battalion geographically spread throughout Great Britain, it is perhaps inevitable that the odd internal letter goes astray, eventually appearing some time later at its desired destination. One such mishap came to light recently, when a stores demand posted < by one Liverpool Detachment to the Battalion RQMS some' months previously made a very delayed appearance. Instead of going to Delhi Barracks Tidworth, the documents went via Delhi, India. One up for the postal service! HOBBY THERE are some of you who know that the Officer Commanding Vehicle Depot Ludgershall, Major John Rose, has an interest in old vehicles—not the Depot stock I hasten to add. The current interest is the 1943 Daimler Armoured Car rescued from a school CCF in London and gradually being restored and rebuilt. Obtaining spares for a vehicle, of which only twenty are known of in this country, is rather difficult but the intrepid Major supported by that master of all trades Mr Eric Richards has been scouring the TA Drill Halls in Hants and Wilts. Their most fruitful source has proved to be the hard targets on Larkhill Ranges, but even they lost some enthusiasm the other day when Eric, working on removing a wheel, found a shell directly under his feet. And he only wanted the tyre blown up. TA P E T R O L E U M O P E R A T O R S HELP OUT WITH an additional petroleum platoon required in the Falklands the trade of Petroleum Operator RAOC has become a little stretched. Nearly every Corporal and below who did not sail with the Task Force has now done a tour with FI Log Bn or on Ascension Island. Meanwhile, Pet Ops continue to serve emergency tours in Belize and BATUS and UNFICYP and Ulster and Twenty one TA Petroleum Operators from both Independant and Sponsored Petroleum Units have volunteered for a years service with the Regular Army. The first nine were attested at Depot RAOC and moved to the Petroleum Centre for an in- tensive course combining both technical POL training with Regimental Refresher Training and addition Falkland Island skills. Eight of the nine already have postings for a tour with FI Logistic Battalion and depart UK between May and July. |
| Book number | R0406 |