RAOC Gazette - page 44
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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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AMMUNITION PLATOON. The weather here has started to show signs of worsening: those of us who have not experienced a Falklands winter cast memories back to the TV picture wc so comfortably watched from our armchairs back in UK and BAOR last year. The Supply Company football team is going from strength to strength and the goal scoring of Lance Corporal Holmes and the defensive prowess of Corporal Troisier have played a major part in its success. The Platoon welcomes W02 Brown, whilst doubting his sanity, he has joined us for a short tour to lend his expertise in reconciling the Islands stocks of various missiles. W02 Gough has left us on the MV Lycaon. destined for sunnier climes and the Platoon is soon to bid farewell to SATO. Captain Timothy, otherwise known as RAPOIT. He will be missed by all and wc wish him well in his new post. Baltic Ferry arrives home. crammed into the room that they are having to hold their future meetings in a bigger venue—the Town Hall! The cameras of 1TN will be there for the second meeting so watch your ' goggle boxes ' long enough for our Famous Falkland Folkies. Congratulations go to Lance Corporal Allan Duffy on passing his B2 Trade Test. The hardest bit apparently was persuading both Chief Clerk G1/G4 and Super to sit still long enough to complete the paper work! Muttering and groaning their way in this month, trying desperately to avoid looking at calendars, were: Corporals John Hill and Ross Hale. Lance Corporals Mark Keymer and Tony Knott, and Privates Jim Galloway and Wayne Allingham. Private Hicks is nearly with us—he is on SS Uganda. Come on out, the waters not that cold! Laughing hysterically all the way home this month went: Sergeant Bill Evans. Corporals Gary Thompson, Gary Hughes, Colin Tye and Private Dylan Williams. ASU. W02 Hogg has disappeared aboard the Sir Pcrcival. to conduct the handover/takeover in South Georgia of the Infantry unit. We were pleased to note he managed to find room for the AB531 as well as a camera and films. Staff Sergeant Sncll and Sergeant Poulton. having been tasked to commence stocktaking find that locating stores in some one hundred and twenty containers is relatively easy—all you do is take everything out and put it all back. Sergeant Jenkins in the meantime makes good use of the stock sheets trying to make the account agree with the stock. Finally, we welcome Private Newband. the junior member of the ASU, who is now on loan to us from Stores Company. RATION PLATOON. Since we last wrote, we have had the one hundred and fiftieth Anniversary celebrations and Corporal Cramman turned a whiter shade of pale when he was told that he was our representative at the Steer riding competition. He was heard to say " But Staff I haven't got a license for steers." Our glorious leader Captain Marshall has found time to go off to South Georgia on a ' liaison visit' to check the storage conditions of rations. The new Depot Super. WOl (Conductor) Burrell. has aged somewhat in the two months he's been here, due to many a fraught meeting with the Joint Services Movements Staff and Port Ops trying to negotiate lighterage to bring rations ashore. We welcome: Private Needham our pet commando, he has just returned from exercise in Goose Green training area, and claims he out-yomped everybody else. We say farewell to W02 Mitchell, Sergeants Duthie, Rood and Belshaw, Corporal Eames. Lance Corporals Ayres, Westmoreland, Duthie, Farrimond, Wallace and Plunkett, Privates Dobson, Powell, Dickens, Hodgkinson, Hickman and Hargate. We welcome WOl (Cdr) Burrell, Sergeants Billington, Bennett and Eccleson, Corporals Brown, Balfour and Laing, Lance Corporal Ryan, and Privates Needham, Davenport, Dunhill. Besson and Hargate. PETROLEUM PLATOON. Sergeant Stewart is now firmly established at the YPF and cries of " Hey you Jimmie " can be heard with regular monotony. Corporal Willis has been busy as the Platoons procurer, but is soon to initiate trials on the new Coastal resupply vessel. The airfield crew have been kept busy according to Corporal Hulse, although it is rumoured that Sergeant Whitelaw is having pain with his bedsores and suffering depression after losing his teddy! On the social scene the Bakery Section have moved into accommodation with the Pet Ops, and can be heard muttering when woken up at 7 am in the morning for fatigues after being on an all night bake till 3 am. Congratulations to Corporal and Mrs Hulse on the birth of their new son. — 37 — KING EDWARD VH's HOSPITAL FOR OFFICERS (Sister Agncs's) BEAUMONT HOUSE, BEAUMONT STREET. LONDON Wl. P a t r o n : H e r Majesty The Queen KING EDWARD VII's Hospital for Officers, affection- ately known as Sister Agnes's, provides the best medical and surgical facilities at the lowest possible cost to officers of all three services (including women officers) serving or retired, who have held a permanent or temporary commission in the Armed Forces. This facility also extends to officers' wives, widows and dependent children of not less than four years of age. The hospital has both private rooms and small wards, and well-equipped X-Ray and Physiotherapy Departments. Medical check-ups can be arranged at a moderate price. Serving officers are entitled to free nursing and maintenance in the shared rooms. Other patients are asked to pay at the rate of £280 per week for a private room and £245 for a shared room or ward bed. If. however, a patient can pay a sum nearer to the actual cost of his maintenance (now over £560 per week) this is much appreciated as it helps others. Consultant's fees are a matter for personal arrangement between patient and Consultant. There is a generously ad- ministered Benevolent Fund for those in straitened circumstances. Subject to age BUPA give friends of the Hospital a fifteen per cent reduction on their BUPACARE sub- scriptions, and PPP and Western Provident a twenty five per cent reduction on their Family Masterplan and Supercover policies respectively, if payment is made by direct debit. The hospital is currently handling over two thousand three hundred in-patients and seven hundred out-patients a year. It is not part of the NHS and is therefore reliant on voluntary aid via subscriptions, donations and legacies for which there is an increasing need as the demand for beds increases. If you would like to receive information or become a subscriber please write to the Appeals Secretary, (NB), 6, Buckingham Place, London SW1E 6HR, or phone 01-828 4454. Applications for admission should be made to the Matron on 01-486 4411. |
| Book number | R0406 |