RAOC Gazette - page 55
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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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| Early date | 1983 |
| Late date | 1983 |
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WELCOME TO THE CORPS A rebadging ceremony was held recently in the WOs and Sergeants Mess Graven Hill Station Bicester. Our photograph shows the Director DSCS, Brigadier Spackman flanked by the two newcomers W02 A. S. Norrie (ex-RCT) and W02 John Greatbanks (ex-R Signals) with Superintending Clerk WOl Stu Buchan and S02 Coord, Major Jim Houseman in attendance. S p ILttttxZ to £ tfie etrttor INDIAN ARMY MEMORABILIA LIEUTENANT COLONEL S. R. KAPUR IAOC writes: — Dear Sir,-—I have received a request from the Director Ordnance Services, Army Headquarters, New Delhi, in which he has intimated that it is proposed to construct a National Defence Museum in Delhi. The aim is to have a collection of defence exhibits of historical value at a central place. It is quite possible that some of the retired officers of RAOC, now settled in UK, are in possession of some exclusive/rare items of historic importance pertaining to the Indian Army and are willing to gift these to the National Defence Museum which will be established in Delhi. I would, therefore, solicit your assistance in obtaining any items of historic value for the proposed museum. High Com- mission of India, Supply Wing (VA Directorate), India House, Aldwich, London, WC2. (/ am sure that among our readers there are items of interest available. Replies direct please.) * Photo C. Abraham. Rebadged at Bicester. OFFICERS LONG SELECTED SPECIALIST TO ATTEND C O U R S E S IN 1984 AMMUNITION Technical Officers Course:— Lieutenant A. R. Albon, 4 Armoured Workshop; Lieutenant G. W. Argyle, Com- mando Logistic Regiment R M ; Lieutenant P. C. Dyer, RMCS; Lieutenant R. H. Lawrance, 1 Ordnance Battalion (att 1 Queens); Lieutenant C. N. D. Lee, RAOC Training Centre; Lieutenant S. D. Lovegrove, Training Battalion and Depot; Lieutenant R. J. C. Maxwell, COD Donnington; Lieutenant D. Newell, RAOC Apprentices College; Lieutenant A. D. Noakes, RMCS; Lieutenant J. C. D. Smith, RAOC Apprentices College; Captain .W. J. Underhill, 16 Battalion RAOC; Lieutenant R. I. Wallwork, AMF(L) Company RAOC; Lieutenant J. M. Whitaker, 8 Field Workshop. Reserves: Lieutenant T. J. Ness, 4 Ordnance Battalion (att 3 RTR); Lieutenant P. R. Saddleton, RAOC Apprentices College. Officers Long Petroleum Course:—Lieutenant J. D. A. Gait, 4 Ordnance Battalion; Captain M. Lacis, Forward Vehicle Depot Recklinghausen; Lieutenant R. Ling, Training Battalion and Depot RAOC; Lieutenant S. J. Parry, 28 Amphibious Engineer Regiment Workshop. Reserves: Second Lieutenant M. H. Bazire, 1 Ordnance Battalion (att 1 King's); Lieutenant C. G. Morgan, 5 Ordnance Battalion (att Headquarters BFFJ); Lieu- tenant R. J. Ough, Ordnance Depot Antwerp; Second Lieutenant N. Selling, Training Battalion and Depot RAOC. Food Technology Course:—To attend: Captain J. R. Bourton, LE(A) Ord 2 (att Logistic Battalion Falklands); Major J. V. Ewart, Headquarters Northern Ireland (Sup); Captain S. J. King, 9 Ordnance Battalion; Captain W. A. Martin, Ordnance Services Berlin; Lieutenant R. D. McKeegan, 3 Ordnance Battalion; Captain M. G. Murphy, School of Ordnance; Captain S. H. Slade, 3 Ordnance Battalion; Major J. W. Withers, Ord- nance Services Berlin. Reserves: Captain M. Carey, 32 Ord- nance Company; Major K. A. Fisher, 3 Ordnance Battalion; Captain S. F. Owen, HW BAOR (Sup). Long Armour I Infantry Course:—No (Published for information only—not selections for 1984. aii authority.) — 44 * * THE ROAD TO SINGAPORE BRIGADIER F. S. GOODWIN writes: — Dear Sir,—I was delighted to read in the May issue of our GAZETTE the short article from Major Frank Williamson and to know that he is still well and hearty. He must be if he can climb to the attic! One Brigade not mentioned in the Orbat and which landed over Morib Beach in Operation Zipper—5 Parachute Brigade. I was the OO/OC OFP. We were under command 34 Indian Corps (the late Brigadier Paddy Doyle was DDOS) and Colonel S. E. Dickson OBE, now living in Lime Regis was ADOS OFPs (think this was his correct title, but I am sure he will forgive me if I have got it wrong). I hope he reads the article and adds to the story. 5 Para Brigade was part of 6 Airborne Division and for this operation the assault Brigade to Parachute into Malaya if the war had not ended. We still went in by sea but the Division later finished up in Palestine, and we in Java. Our journey from UK to India is a story worthy of telling, one day, especially the six day rail journey from Karachi to Bombay plus Ice Boxes. I was only sorry THE GAZETTE had not arrived the previous week when the annual reunion of the ' Canbedonians' took place in London (ex 223 BOD). I might have added to the list. Major General Denis Key was present who was I believe ADOS 82 West African Division and later the ADOS Singapore Area at Fort Canning. * * * MAJOR H. CRIPPS also writes on the same subject: — Sir,—I can indeed add to the ' ORBAT' pieced together by Major F. D. Williamson's 'find' of memorabilia in his attic, and offer no less than the 5th Indian Division which took over Singapore from the Japanese at the time of the surrender in 1945, having previously been engaged in the Burma campaign. I cannot, regrettably, offer Major Williamson the Divisional sign of a Cardinal red ball on a black square (or rectangle!). I can, however, assure him that one would be quite easy to pro- duce as illustrated by the following story. At the end of the Burma campaign (I was then OC 5 Ind Div OFP), during a few days flying leave to Calcutta, I was surprised to receive a signal from A / Q Divisional Headquarters instructing me to ' locally purchase' no less than thirty thousand Divisional Signs. With the great help of Conductor J. R. W. Macleod (Superintending Clerk ORD Directorate Headquarters Eastern Army), a tailor was found in one of the back streets of Calcutta who managed to produce these in ten days! What productivity! And what a pity one did not finish up in Major Williamson's collection. — |
| Book number | R0406 |