RAOC Gazette - page 246
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| Publication date | 1983 |
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| Early date | 1983 |
| Late date | 1983 |
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Lance Corporal McLuskie is returning to 31 Ordnance Company about now where he has his wife and two daughters waiting for him. He will probably still have to carry his pack off the plane at Brize Norton! CONGRATULATIONS DSCS has sent in this picture of Mrs Jean Burnham, Head of ADP Division, Directorate of Supply Computer Services, with husband Dennis and son Bill outside Buckingham Palace after receiving the OBE from Her Majesty The Queen. Jean Burnham and her family are well known in Bicester Garrison. She started as a CO in 1959. Posted to CICP as an EO Programmer in 1967, she was promoted HEO in 1970, SEO in 1975, and Principal in 1979. After this promotion, she left Bicester to work in CM(ADP) in London, for two years, where she was concerned with all civilian ADP post- ings, before returning to Bicester and her current appoint- ment in 1981. Major John Ridding. Depot and the OEOs. John has been ' head hunted' by his former OIC 2 Sub-Depot, Lieutenant Colonel Ray Holland, and is off to work for BLESMA. To John and Dorothy go our best wishes for the future and trust they will not forget all their friends in the Corps and especially those at Donnington. THE Jean has a high reputation throughout the Garrison and beyond for her skill at her job and her management style. Many Senior Officers in the Corps can testify to her sense of humour, as well as to the sound advice she has provided on many matters. Her OBE follows a period of hectic activity during which the Automatic Data Processing Installation in Bicester more than doubled in size, and was then called on to support Operation Corporate, using in some cases, systems whose developments had been hastily accelerated to meet the emergency. No-one who knows Jean will be in any doubt- about how the Installation met the challenge. Dennis Burnham is Chief Instructor in the MHE Section of Technical Training Wing COD Bicester—he too, is well known in Bicester especially in golf, cricket and fishing circles. Son Bill now works in London as a lecturer in computer science but often worked in the Depot as a casual labourer in his school holidays and university vacations, making a family ' hat-trick ' for the Garrison. The Corps as a whole share her family's pride in Jean's award. RETIREMENT OF ( O E O ) J. M . R I D D I N G , IN CYPRUS FRESH from their successes in the Rhine Army Championships the RAOC Free Fall team travelled to Cyprus to compete in the Cyprus Combined Services Parachute Championships held at King's Field, Dhekelia. The team chosen to take part in both four man Relative work and Team accuracy were Captain Gary Hawthorne, Sergeant Rob Ames (REME attached), Corporal Ziv Ziverts and Lance Corporal Sean Hutchinson. Needless to say the weather is ideal for the sport in that part of the world, although the wind has a habit of blowing in opposite directions at different heights creating havoc for a ' hard core' accuracy jumper who is aim- ing for a five centimetre disc in the middle of a twenty five metre circle! The competition proper started with two rounds of Relative Work and a round of accuracy and it soon became apparent that out of the eight teams competing, including one team from the Sultanate of Oman, the main contenders would be the Royal Engineers UK/BAOR, the Cannonballs and the Royal Green Jackets. Six relative jumps and five accuracy jumps constituted the competition. Dawn on the final day brought a fairly high wind and Mrs Jean Burnham and family on that special day. MAJOR CANNONBALLS MBE MAJOR JOHN RIDDING, ' J R ' to all at COD Donnington, retires this month after thirty seven years service. He joined the Corps as a boy soldier in October 1946, rising through the ranks to Warrant Officer Class I (Conductor) before com- missioning in May 1968. His commissioned service has taken him through SSC, SRC and Regular OEO with tours in Singa- pore, BAOR, Berlin and UK. He was awarded the MBE for the tremendous work he did at Donnington during Op Corporate. His last few weeks at Donnington consisted largely of farewell lunches and dinners from the Officers Mess, 2 Sub- — The four man sequential team in good spirits before emplaning. 203 |
| Book number | R0406 |