RAOC Gazette - page 41
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| Full title | RAOC Gazette |
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| Publication date | 1983 |
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| Early date | 1983 |
| Late date | 1983 |
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64 ORDNANCE COMPANY THE Company soccer team^ at long last, managed to play the much delayed match against 62 Ordnance Company in the first round of the RAOC BAOR Cup. After a sterling performance by all the players, we were defeated by our stronger opponents five two. At the post-mortem held in the bar after the game the consensus of opinion was that we left the field bloodied but unbowed and that we weren't beaten, they just scored more goals that's all! Still on the sporting front, we entered a team in the recent 6 Ordnance Battalion swimming championships and once again, in the face of much stronger opposition, put up a very creditable performance to emerge as runners up. All credit for this achievement must go to our team of Second Lieutenant Songhurst, W02 Povey, Staff Sergeant Wadley (team captain), Staff Sergeant Wormley, Sergeant Kilnan, Corporal Banner and Private Williams with the help of Lance Corporal Tyson, Privates Hartley and Luff from Headquarters 6 Ord- nance Battalion. Congratulations this month are in order for Sergeant Kilnan on his promotion to that rank and Corporal Bell on his marriage to Miss Sian Beach in Cardiff recently. Sergeant Kilnan's promotion meant that, unfortunately, he had to leave the Company to take up his appointment as Provost Sergeant in 6 Ordnance Battalion. Corporal and Mrs Bell are now getting used to married life and I'm sure all the Company will join me in sending their best wishes. We now come to the sad point of these notes where we have to say farewell to .those leaving the Company. In addition to losing Sergeant Kilnan, we have to say bon voyage to W02 Utterson who is leaving shortly to take up his appointment as Master Baker in 9 Ordnance Battalion prior to his six months tour in the Falkland Islands. During his stay with us, W02 Utterson has totally involved himself in all aspects of company life, from running the unit club, to turning out on the soccer and rugby fields at his, dare I say it, veteran stage. A sad loss, he will be grealy missed as we say all the best for the future. Of course, having to bid farewell means we also extend a warm welcome to their replacements—W02 Cummings and Corporal Coney. W02 Cummings joins us on promotion from the Bakery Branch of the Employment Training School at Blackdown whilst Corporal Coney has arrived on an inter- company posting from 63 Ordnance Company. Also joining us this month is Staff Sergeant Wormley who has arrived to replace Staff Sergeant Wadley. Anyway, to all our new arrivals and their families, we hope your' stay with us is a long and happy one. We have said fond farewells to Corporal Stutty Sutcliffe and Corporal Prof Gray belated thanks to you both. Sergeant Ken Williams left us last month on promotion to 15 Field Workshop, well done Ken. It only remains to say farewell to WOl Ken Blackwell on departure to ciwie street, the Army will now have a surplus of ' Red Lead.' You may be interested that our honorary RAOC Corporal, Mr Tony Guidotti, recently celebrated thirty years at Hildsheim and he sends his regards to all who remember him. RAOC Cyprus s^_^£s^__^ I ^ I I <--i / \ ^N%J ifJt _/ \HvT^~I|Hf WKt fW ^^Mft)S# ^^E^F ^^^r SUMMER officially arrived in Cyprus on 18th April. Naturally this resulted in several days of less than warm weather. It did, however, manage to pick up on the following weekend when no less than eighteen members of the Unit took, once again, to the hills on the 12 SU Walkabout. Several training sessions prior to the event paved the way to honours for two of our teams; the now well-known combination of Long, Curtis and Stanton winning the event in five hours eighteen minutes, but not too far ahead of our Veterans team of Lieutenant Colonel Elliott, Major Bird and Major Wright who had to forego the VETS prize to claim over- all second place. This from a field of over seventy teams was a remarkable performance over twenty five miles (assuming you got your map reading correct!) of very rugged country. This month has, as usual, featured audits on our service funds accounts, fund raising schemes, Walkabout and Nesam training and even a little bit of Work Study. We hope that when the full Work Study team get here they will help us find some time for routine work. As it is, time appears to be at a premium and overleaf are the token words from: — STORES PLATOON CORPS TROOPS WORKSHOP EXERCISE MARCH HARE was the first Workshop Exercise of the year with lots of moves to practise convoy drills, night drives (what's a convoy light ' Q ') and the dreaded cam. The OC Captain Henty seemed pleased after the first two days and decided to go home a day early. On return to camp Sergeant Dave Jones, assisted by the clerical staff of PC and A began the rigours of end of financial year closing of the CRB. This clashed with the re-org of the PC and A which after a bumpy start has now developed into a ' Smooth Machine' (so Q Robinson says and hopes). Congratulations to Lance Corporal Scouse Bunting and Private Ghost Wilde on passing their Bl Sup Spec course. Sergeant Terry Kidd has started to lay his plans for his handover with the building of a sleeping trailer for Q Robinson (he's a lovely lad our Terry). We bid welcome to Private Steve Holmes and Miss Amanda Barlow and goodbye and good luck to Mrs Christine Shaw who has left us due to her husband being posted. STORES SECTION 5 HEAVY REGIMENT WORKSHOP THE impending departure of our WOIC, WOl Ken Blackwell has shaken our scribe into action, one year without any notes is too much. A look back over the last year has seen many changes both in the Workshop and the Stores Section so some introductions are in order. Our Supply Controllers (we still call them clerks) are led by WOl Ken Blackwell and his merry band of Sergeant George Chalmers, Corporals Jim Latham and Smiler Mark Thomas, Lance Corporals Scott Fyvie and Billy Whitehead. Our Storemen are led by Sergeant Pete Bradbury and his crew of Corporal Robertson, Lance Corporal Steve (the haircut) Southwick and Private Dennis Warhurst. Our footballer, Lance Corporal Billy Whitehead, has played for the Corps and the Regiment, the remainder of the Section have helped the Workshop in nearly all their sports. — 34 — ITEMS AVAILABLE FROM THE RAOC SECRETARIAT Corps Tie £2.50 Officers Club Tie £3.10 Golf Tie £4.00 Corps Colours Tie £3.50 Lapel Badge (RAOC Association) £1.00 RAOC Wall Plaque (plus 50p postage) £5.50 Ice Bucket* £9.50 (plus £1.00 postage) ATO Badge (No. 2 Dress) £1.70 Combat Scarf/Cravat (navy blue cotton) 50p Short Corps History £1.00 Playing Cards (red or blue pack) 60p (plus postage) Letraset—Corps Badge in colour— assorted sizes (32) per sheet £10.00 *Would overseas personnel/Units requiring this item please approach our suppliers direct: — Regimental Replicas, Sandwich Industrial Estate, Sandwich, Kent. This will reduce the price by the amount of VAT although postage will be payable. The RAOC Secretariat, Blackdown Barracks, Deepcut, Camberley, Surrey. |
| Book number | R0406 |