RAOC Gazette - page 199
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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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| Colour | Yes |
| Grey | No |
| Early date | 1983 |
| Late date | 1983 |
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BICESTER'S CANNONS CLUB REOPENS BUILDERS RUBBLE, skips, planks of wood, piles of sand, loose wires, no electrical power in some plug sockets, only half a Club—these are just a few of the inconveniences the Members of the Cannons Club at Bicester have had to put up with over the last nine months. The new facilities include an updated Canteen/Restaurant, track-mounted moveable overhead lights in the disco room and main bar. An enlarged main bar area. A first class tap room with pipes providing chilled beer/lager/cider to two bars with coke and lemonade also on tap. Sufficient electrical sockets on the stage to keep even the biggest and fussiest disco roadshow happy. It was a day to celebrate and the club did so in some style. Guests for the evening included the Assistant Managing Director of NAAFI, Mr Jack Morgan, the Regional Manager, Mr John Fisher, Mr Brian Davies of PSA and principal guest, Garrison Commander, Brigadier Green. Brigadier Green was invited by Lieutenant Colonel Janes to pull the first pint and Private John Price was ' detailed ' to drink it. Lieutenant Colonel A . J . Hawley. employment as Supervising Officer to a large military Head- quarters when he took up that appointment with Headquarters Strategic Command at Wilton. He continued as Supervising Officer in the newly formed Headquarters UKLF and remained there until his retirement from active service in April 1975. In June 1976 Arthur came out of retirement to take up the retired officer post in Headquarters DOS (Ord 5), where for the last seven years he has handled our Corps Regimental domestic affairs. During these years his sound common-sense advice based upon a life time in the service has been greatly valued and will be sadly missed by all those privileged to have known or worked with him. Arthur would often describe a colleague of whom he thought highly, as a ' nice man.' 1 can do no more than pay him the compliment and wish a very nice man and his wife Mary all the best for the future. Cheers! Pricey downs the first pint. The evening was a swinging success with music by the Atlantic Prince Roadshow and a cabaret act by Humbug. A feast of a buffet laid on by the Army Catering Corps and a raffle in which the top prize was a sixteen inch Colour Tele- vision, donated by NAAFI. May the Club now go from strength to strength and be- come the venue for many memorable functions in the years ahead. RETIREMENT LIEUTENANT TEETH ARM 33 ORDNANCE COMPANY recently came to the aid of a local school. The Norbert-Schule in Coerde, North Munster, turned to OC 33 Ordnance Company for help in loading seven large boxes of dental equipment. The complete dental surgery had been donated by the school to Cameroon in Africa, but when packed in boxes proved too heavy to manhandle. With the aid of an Eager Beaver the boxes were quickly loaded on to transport for the first part of OF COLONEL, A. J. HAWLEY THE 30th of September saw the final retirement of Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Hawley. Arthur's long military career began on Empire Day the 24th of May 1938 when he enlisted into the Royal Artillery at Woolwich. He served with the Regiment throughout the War in France, Belgium, the UK, India, Assam, Burma and Singapore rising to the rank of acting Warrant Officer Class 1. His career with RAOC began in September 1945 when he transferred and joined 8 Company RAOC at Overton-on-Dee. Next he was posted to COD Donnington in December 1946 as the Chief Clerk 9 Battalion and there then followed a series of Chief Clerk appointments in the UK, Greece, Egypt, Singapore, Belgium and BAOR before commissioning as a Regular OEO in June 1963. Arthur's commissioned service began with a posting as Staff Captain (Mobilisation) in Headquarters Southern Command, during which time he was temporarily detached as OIC Stores Section of 28 Command Workshop at Hilsea. A tour in Singapore as Staff Captain Stores and Vehicles began in May 1965 and on his return to the UK in March 1968 he joined CVD Ludgershall as OIC Gen Admin. It was in December 1970 that he became the first OEO to be selected for — Eager Beaver to the rescue. 164 |
| Book number | R0406 |