RAOC Gazette - page 37
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| Publication date | 1983 |
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| Early date | 1983 |
| Late date | 1983 |
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offices more often than they are in due to the avalanche of Ordnance Ancillary Inspections. S02 Mat Major Richard Rhodes, DOWO WOl (SSM) Danny Kelly and WO Sup W02 (SQMS) Dai Green form the nucleus of the team and are looking forward to a rest at the end of the Inspection Period. Two weeks rest and I'm afraid the annual cycle starts all over again. While they are out, our two remaining Clerks are ably carrying on the continuous desk work. Well done to Mrs Eleanor Duthoit and Herr Karl Hoffman. Talk about being double-hatted. After having completed so many Div, Corps or Head- quarters BAOR exercises over the last year, it was a breath of fresh air for many of the Headquarters personnel to actually take part in the first exercise of the new 3 Ordnance Battalion. The Exercise named ' Beechers Brook' (is the CO a betting man?) brushed away many cobwebs and proved excellent tuition in field craft and tactics to the younger elements of the Head- quarters. On the sporting scene Sergeant Tom Hart continues to win his monthly golf medal at Werl Golf Club. To his credit he has also gained a runners up medal recently in the 3 Division Minor Units competition. He has a little help of course from his S02 Major Keith Fisher who took time off from Amateur Dramatics to appear in the final. Best wishes to our unfortunate C Sups Clerk Dagma Tipp, who has suffered a broken leg in a recent car accident. She insists however, that this will n o t ' hinder her forthcoming wedding. Is this an Omen I wonder! 31 ORDNANCE COMPANY THIS month we say farewell to Brigadier J. H. Skinner, Com- mander Supply 1 (BR) Corps who sadly departed for UK. To bid farewell to Brigadier and his wife Sonia the Battalion held a parade at Winterbourne Baracks with Captain Peter Walsh as parade Adjutant and our CO Lieutenant Colonel Harris as the parade commander. The parade went extremely well and was followed by a splendid buffet. Sergeant Steve Carlyon, Corporal Taff Jarman, Lance Corporal Geordie Bartram, Privates Sam Eagle and Jimmy Lochrie all get a mention this month as they represented the Company in the 3 Armoured Division First Aid competition where they came sixth out of twenty two teams which was a commendable result beating a lot of the major unit teams. Also this month we had our Tickle Test, which was incorporated into our ARU BFT, in which we achieved a ninety eight per cent pass rate. During the last week we have had a small group of Army Cadets from the London Division staying with the Company. A training programme was arranged by our CSM W02 Thayre, and their instructors for the week were Corporals John Hutchinson, Paul Willis and Lance Corporal Gordon Mciuskie. The first few days were devoted to Regimental Training to familiarise the cadets with Regular Army equipment. They were then given a small break to go shopping, sightseeing and the hike and then to finish off their stay, the training team arranged a twenty four hour exercise to test their fieldcraft with Lance Corporal Mciuskie teaching them how to fall over your own ambush (silly thing!). We recently heard the Chief Clerk crying, " I hope my bicycle is not in the bath as well," when he went outside to cycle home but was deficient a bike; I won't tell who had taken it but he's got three pips and is the next one down from an OC. Finally we say goodbye to the following: Sergeant Bob Boneham, Corporals Bratty Davis, Roy Rowland, Privates String Vest, Mac Greenaway and Dave Perrott. Lance Corporal John Fennell, Privates Taff Haden and Paul Calder who have gone to BFFI and to ' Big' Frank Irving and Darrell Tomlin- son who both have gone to BATUS. We wish you all the very best of good fortune. New arrivals in the unit are Sergeants Steve Barrett, Scottie Irvine, Mick Greenfield, Corporal Rod Buliard, Lance Corporals Smudge Smith, Bill Trobe, Steve Goodall, Privates Tony Haynes, Andy Burnett, Vossa Hughs, -Eddie Falls, Andy Heath, Dave Clarke and Geoff Jones. Hope you have a good time with the Company. 33 ORDNANCE COMPANY SINCE our last contribution, the Company decided to carry out an exercise in improvisation. With the COs exercise looming closer and closer and our weapons and equipment no nearer than they have been for the past few months, the CQMS decided that ' If they won't issue it, then the best answer is to scrounge i t ' So with a lot of effort on the part of the ' Cellar Gang' we eventually managed to get everyone kitted out and despatched for a week of playing enemy to 31 ; Ordnance Company. Messrs Allen and Coveney took on a decidedly Slovak appear- ance and with their comrades in tow took it upon themselves to harass our sister company. However, it still seems a bit of a mystery why they carried out a full scale attack on a perfectly harmless and deserted piece of woodland while ' Flannagans M o b ' happily slept two or three kilometres away. Back at Munster it is more like a ghost town than a barracks and everytime a body appears it is immediately sent on exercise so as not to disturb the tranquil atmosphere. It has even got to the stage where the OC has disappeared and the barman has been sent away. Our congratulations this month go to Eric Scott on his promotion to W02. Maybe in a year or two he will manage to put the pace-stick down. HEADQUARTERS 3 ARMOURED DIVISION G1/G4 WELCOME to the world of ' A Q ' once again and just in case you had forgotten who was here I shall give you a quick run- down of us gods:—OC is W02 Roy Bartram BEM, who has recently moved down the corridor from G3 (Ops) on pro- motion; welcome and congrats. Next we have CC (Ops) Sergeant Hugh Ward. Then we have the MS Clerk, Corporal Alan Robinson, who we must congratulate on gaining four passes, one with distinction, on his recent course (see you did get a mention). The G1/G4 (Gen) Clerk is Lance Corporal Derek Draper, who has a multitude of clocks and watches to make sure he arrives home on time. The G1/G4 Ops Clerk is Lance Corporal Norman Smart; any more of his stories and we'll palm him off on Jackanory; and finally, we have the G1/G4 (Gen) Private, who is Mick Curtin, who somehow seems to be absent from work more often than he is in. We welcome to our domain Major David and Caroline Griffiths, who recently joined us from Staff College Camberley to take up the reins of the S02 G1/G4 (Ops). HEADQUARTERS 4 ARMOURED BRIGADE AND MUNSTER GARRISON WE shall commence our first contribution as members of The Iron Division by officially welcoming, on the reorganisation (yet again!) of Armoured Brigades, our BOWO SSM Bob Gregory and his right-hand man Corporal Mick Pays. Corporal Pays visions of a cushy number were soon thwarted when he discovered that even staff clerks do BFTs and that twice weekly runs were a part of the Headquarters weekly routine. BOWO Bob Gregory is busy enlightening the uninitiated and at the same time straining the resources of our meagre stationery store and Despatch Section by pushing out reams of paper on Supply and related matters, in fact such is the load that the Staff Assistant, Conductor Allan Braithwaite is seriously con- sidering opening a separate float file for BOWO; he's just jealous really as he didn't think Tech Clerks, (Oops Supply Clerks or is it Supply Specialists sorry Supply Controllers) could write. We recently held our Ten Pin Bowling Presentation Dinner. Sad to say the closest any of the RAOC element came to the bowling trophies was in their selection and preparation prior to the presentation. However, it is felt pertinent to point out that Private Taff L-B was, by one point, top RAOC bowler followed closely by Conductor Allan Braithwaite and Corporal Steve Turner. Sports wise we have not really excelled but did manage to put out a team for the Garrison Orienteering in which Corporal Turner and Conductor Braithwaite came in together. We'll keep you guessing as to who was first off. The occasional game of squash reveals that L-B belies his bulk. On the demise of 2 Armoured Division we were visited by our outgoing and incoming RAOC COs. To Lieutenant Colonel Baughan we presented a Brigade plaque for his collection which was presented to him by our youngest soldier Private Cooper, in fact young Cooper impressed us all so much with his finesse and oratory prowess that he is now our elected fare- well speech maker and presenter of plaques. We are now under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Harris. CO 3 Ordnance Battalion. STORES SECTION 61 STATION WORKSHOP HAVING left Corps Troops we are now under the watchful eye of Headquarters 3 Ordnance Battalion. WOIC W02 Terry Foster is at last wearing a smile having seen the re-org of the Storehouse and Office completed (his dream since he arrived in the Unit). 30 — |
| Book number | R0406 |