RAOC Gazette - page 221
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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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congratulations must go to W 2 Baker for being awarded ' Man of the Match.' Well done lads. HEADQUARTERS COMPANY. We have said farewell to Major Bennet who has departed to sample the delights of the Middle East by serving with BRITFORLEB. Sergeant Stan Brown has also departed (third time lucky) to see if the locals use the same 'Arrows' as he does in Belize! Rumour has it that he is managing to squeeze in some work in between swim- ming, snorkling and siestas! Continuing with farewells, we bid bon voyage to Corporal Straw to Wulfen, Corporal Cook (ACC) to Fallingbostel and Lance Corporal Smith to Paderborn. All the best in your new postings. We welcome Corporal Featherstone (ACC) from Blandford, Corporals Zimmerman and Leishman from the delights of Hong Kong. (There's no LOA here!) 91 ORDNANCE COMPANY. We welcome back to our fo'd those gallant LRS members who have been slumming it in Kenya. (Jambo). These are Lieutenant Hardy, Staff Sergeant Toze, Corporal Simmons and Lance Corporal Cuthbertson. (Did you remember to bring the Chief Clerks Coffee?) Soon, more LRS members will be departing to various parts of the world. We say farewell to Staff Sergeant Toze to 7 RHA, Sergeant Duff to 73 Ordnance Company (V), Sergeant Latta to RSC Sutton Coldfield for his last few months, Private Evans to BAOR, Private Harrison to the South Atlantic, Private Jordan to Antwerp and Private Gallagher to Ascension. In their places we welcome Staff Sergeant Jones, Sergeants Gilfillan, Hope and O'Byrne, Lance Corporals Davies and Powell, Privates Le Feurve and Patterson. 11 Ord nance Battalion (EOD) WITH the new Headquarters office accommodation Hearing completion we say welcome to W02 Phil Marriott and Staff Sergeant Mick Warden (not another Mick at Headquarters!) as Battalion Chief Clerk and NCO IC Operations Centre respectively. Enjoy your tours fellows. On the sporting scene we did manage to draft together thirteen willing hands from around the country to represent the Battalion in the DGOS Cricket Cup. After some very exciting cricket we lost in the final to 9 Ordnance Battalion by thirteen runs. I wonder if we can have indoor nets built, attached to the Headquarters building, in preparation for next year? 521 Company's response to repeated requests for notes has been answered with comments such as; the OC and SAT are on holiday in Canada! (can't be bad for some). This holiday under the guise of an inspection must have been to give them a rest after their IED Licensing Exercise in early June. It just goes to show that some people cannot stand the pace. Perhaps age is beginning to tell. 621 Company did much better. As you read on you will notice that owing to the current heatwave the social event of the year was a Houns'ow Detachment Barbeque organised by Staff Sergeant Chris Edgeworth and Sergeant Bob Revill. Un- fortunately Staff Sergeant Chris Edgeworth wasn't sure how to fit the tap on the lager barrel and was forced to consume the first twenty pints on the afternoon prior to the event. Rumour has it that the whole thing was an exercise to see how many ATs it takes to light a barbeque. The answer: six, two pints of petrol and the right size lumps of charcoal. On the sporting side Sergeants Bob Scott, Bob Revill, Corporals Tich Town and Bill Sutton represented the Battalion in the final of the DGOS Cricket Cup. Staff Sergeant Jack Kelly continues to be a thorn in the side of the sedentary members of the detachment as he strives to convert them to marathon runners, or even half marathon runners. He can be seen daily, trying to wear out the soles of his new ' Balance' running shoes. W02 John Edwards has been accepted for work study train- ing and leaves us at the end of the year. The Company has said farewell during the last two months to Staff Sergeant Nick Nicholaides to Oman, Staff Sergeant Ben Bienkowski to Canada and Corporal Baz Ennds, Royal Signals to BAOR, smile lads and think of the LOA. As for the arrivals, we have a defector from North of the border in the form of Staff Sergeant Bob Clay who has joined our Ashford Detachment and Corporal Jock MacVicar, Royal Signals from BAOR to Company Headquarters, not forgetting Sergeant Martin Epton who has returned from Northern Ireland after failing to find any five hundred pound aircraft bombs in the Province. 721 Company appear to be struggling for a script writer. The high spot of the last month must have been the Licensing Exercise at Hereford. The weather stayed bright for the whole of the exercise and we managed to blow up an American EOD operator. WE'VE BEEN POSITIVELY VETTED FOR MOVING THE SERVICES. For many years Pickfords have you maximum security storage. carried out thousands of trouble- For a free estimate, without free jobs for Forces families, whether obligation, please ring us. moving or storing their homes. We have branches all over the United Kingdom. A special Forces branch in Germany And the experience and expertise to move ,;^ you safely to anywhere in ,;i _____ r r j , s : r the world. 7iij!?¥" I'l'STO ' > i - Alternatively all of our branches can offer k rtwitirimm — 184 — |
| Book number | R0406 |