RAOC Gazette - page 150
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| Corps | RAOC |
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| Material type | Journals |
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| Full title | RAOC Gazette |
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| Publication date | 1983 |
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| Colour | Yes |
| Grey | No |
| Early date | 1983 |
| Late date | 1983 |
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The piece bears four silver stamps, the identifiable ones being an Irish Harp and Brittania. The weight not known but could be in excess of forty ounces. Any information to the Corps Secretariat, Blackdown Barracks, Deepcut, Camberley, Surrey, please. COLD posting, they get the rare opportunity to spend weekends in such places as The Valley of the King's in Egypt or Bethlehem, Jerusalem and the Dead Sea in Israel, to name but a few of the many places of interest in that part of the world. PRIVATE COMFORT ARMY FOLLOWING a recent survey of employees former military service the ASU of 3 Ordnance Battalion find that they have nearly a thousand years of uniformed experience and the old and bold of the following Regiments and Corps have come in to roost with them:—Carbiniers, 7H, 3QOH, 15/19H, 9/12L, RA, RE, R Signals, Scots Guards, R Hampshire Regt, Queens Regt. R Fusiliers, R Scots Fusiliers, RGJ, WFR, KSLI. Bucks LI, AAC, RAMC, RASC, RCT, RAOC, REME, RMP, ACC, Royal Air Force plus the Canadian Military Forces and South African Defence Force. GAZETTE readers may be interested to know that the following former members of RASC/RAOC continue to serve the Corps with ASU: Mr Fred Pearce (CASO). Ex RASC; Mr John Atkins, Ex Cdr RAOC; Mr Tony Crowhurst, Ex RAOC; Mr Alex Johnson, Ex RAOC; Mr Harry Keene, Ex RAOC; Mr James Kenney, Ex Cdr RAOC; Mr James (Mac) McDonnel, Ex RASC (former military BIA); Mr Stan Moulton. Ex RASC; Mr Albert Thompson, Ex SSM RAOC; Mr Ted Yarlet, Ex RAOC. WE recently reported that on 23rd March Corporal ' Speedy' Elstub made his way from Viersen to an Army National Guard tent, twenty two miles out of Nome in Alaska to help and be part of the Iditarod Sled Dog Race. It was ' Speedy's' job (along with Egor Zdanovec, a native of Alaska) to man the Safety Check Point. It was in this tent that they cooked, sheltered the mushers and visitors. In ' Speedy's' words the accommodation was ' very comfortable, out of the wind, warm with a dry floor and electric lights powered by a National Guard generator.' Corporal Elstub first saw the State in 1976 when he took leave while his unit was training in Canada. He has spent most of his annual leave there since. From Viersen to Alaska. He plans on retiring in nine years time and settling in the Interior ' some place with trees so I can build a cabin." Pictured here with Corporal Elstub (left) is Mr Joe Reddington Snr (father of Iditarod). MULTINATIONAL OBSERVERS OUR photograph shows Corps members of the Multinational Force and Observers, Siniai. Though it sounds an outlandish Photo Captain M. E. Parsons, RAOC. John Scoular and Eric Toom following the presentation of their certificates for twenty five years loyal service to BAOR together with the CO Lieutenant Colonel David Harris and OC ASU Major Alan Foote. MOROCCO Out in Sinai, Major Palmer driving w i t h left to right: Sergeant Bird, Staff Sergeant A t t a r d and Corporal Cassam. — BOUND GIBRALTAR was the first stop for the expedition team led by Major Terry Mitford which included Second Lieutenant Margaret Wilton and Privates Jackie Emery and Pauline Wilson from COD Bicester. They headed for the Central High Atlas Mountains in Morocco and Tangier, Marrakesh and Ouarzazate, finally reaching Bou-Thara from where the walking began. Major Mitford had hired three mules, along with their owners as guides. The first days were spent wading knee-deep in cold, fast flowing water as they trekked up a river valley to over eight thousand feet over a steep ridge, where even the mules had to be pushed! On average they covered ten miles each day over a variety of terrain. Some valleys resembled the Grand Canyon, others were wide and fertile with cultivation on terraces built into the hillsides. The party crossed deserts, dry river beds and gorges choked up by boulders. Occasionally the heat was unbearable, but they also experienced snowfalls, rain and gale- force winds too, and the tents were often weighted down with rocks at night In the villages the group were objects of great curiosity. Children begged for sweets, money and cigarettes, which they 123 — |
| Book number | R0406 |