RAOC Gazette - page 106
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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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FINAL RETIREMENT MAJOR OF be missed by many—oft I*ve heard the cry " when Tommy talks. I listen." He also collected a GS Medal with three clasps, five campaign medals, the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal (twice!) and the Meritorious Service Medal. Tom and Elsie have now settled down in Kimpton village. near Andover (and the Tidworth Golf Course!) and I'm sure all the many friends they both made during a lifetime of service to the Corps will join me in wishing them both very good health and many happy years together in retirement: \vc certainly look forward to meeting them both at future Corps functions. NEWBY MAJOR TOM NEWBY retired finally on 27th July after exactly fifty years (to the day!) of continuous service with the RAOC as man and boy, officer and retired officer. He was first introduced to a military uniform at the tender age of eleven when in 1929 he entered the Duke of York's Royal Military School, just four years after the untimely death of his father, the late Conductor ' Will' Newby, who had himself served for twenty one years in the Corps and who, at the time of his death, had been selected for a Regular OEO commission. There seemed to be little doubt that young Tom was destined to eventually join the Corps and the musical experience he gained at the ' Dukes ' where he was a regular member of the school band stood him in good stead when on 27th July 1933 he reported to Hilsea for Boys' Service—as a Bugler! He also became known as the happiest man in the Corps band—always clapping his hands (with cymbals of course!). A. J. H. MR F. E. MUNDAY MANY readers will be saddened by the news of the death on 7th May of Mr Fred Munday who was very well known to so many officers of the Corps. He died suddenly at home. Mr Munday was Chief Steward of the Headquarters RAOC Officers Mess for more than ten years until he retired on 12th April 1973 after completing over forty years in and with the Army. Before assuming the Headquarters Mess appointment he had filled a number of posts in other Officers Messes in the Camber- ley area and it was because of his overall ability that he was selected for promotion to the Corps Mess at Deepcut in the early sixties. There he became well known for his cheerful optimism, his kind and helpful approach and for the splendid example he set for the more junior members of the staff. Photo Major Pat Wall. Major Tom Newby | | I • During those unsettled years leading up to the outbreak of World War II, Tom served in the UK at Hilsea, Bovington, Catterick and Bramley until October 1938 when he was drafted overseas to serve in Palestine. He later saw war service with the 8th Army in the Middle East, returning to UK. in 1944 for a brief stay at Derby where, in February 1945, he married Elsie, an NCO in the ATS who was also serving with the Corps! The honeymoon was to be curtailed when in March 1945 Tom returned to the Central Mediterranean Force in Italy, and then, on cessation of hostilities he was posted to Headquarters British Troops Austria as Chief Clerk to DDOS in the rank of WOl (Sub-Conductor). It was here in December 1945 that he was joined by his wife who thereafter ably supported him throughout the remainder of his service. Before leaving Austria in 1949 on posting to Headquarters Lowland District Tom was honoured with the Award of the GOC-in-C Certificate of Good Service. In 1951 the Newbys were again drafted overseas; this time to FARELF where Tom served in both 221 Vehicle Battalion and 3 Base Ordnance Depot. It was whilst in Singapore in 1953 he was appointed Conductor. Later, a spell at Donnington between 1955/57 brought a brief relief from overseas duty before once again it was time to repack the MFO boxes; this time for a five year sojourn with Headquarters MELF in Cyprus. In January 1962 Tom was appointed to a Regular OEO commission and returned to the UK. but after only three years at Burscough the Far East called again and the Newby family returned to 221 BVD. This was to be Tom's final over- seas tour, the conclusion of which heralded a seventeen year unbroken stint in Ord 1 as both a serving and retired officer. Throughout these fifty years Tom Newby had accrued a vast amount of Ordnance knowledge and his sage council will — Mr Fred Munday. NATIONAL ARMY £1 M I L L I O N MUSEUM OPEN EXTENSION A major extension to the National Army Museum in Chelsea, incorporating a new exhibition gallery which brings the story of the Army right up to date, was opened recently by General Sir John Stanier, the Chief of the General Staff. The £1 million extension comprises three storeys and com- pletes the development of the museum building, the whole cost of which has been met by private subscription. On the first floor of the extension is the new exhibition gallery which uses a series of life-size displays, with contemporary weapons and equipment, together with superb models and pictures, to tell the story of the Army between the start of the First World War and the recapture of the Falklands in 1982. Other galleries in the extension will be used for temporary exhibitions and future developments. SEND THEM ON SOLDIERS, serving on detachment, are still writing to me saying that they are not getting their GAZETTES and have to rely on well thumbed copies, passed from hand to hand, by those who are receiving them. 87 — |
| Book number | R0406 |