RAOC Gazette - page 295
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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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His successor is Captain Roger Swift, who comes to us from Headquarters, The Light Division. During his first year he will take the Band to Northern Ireland and Hong Kong in March 1984 where they will be assured of a warm welcome from the Gurkhas! WALKABOUT CYPRUS THE Cyprus Walkabout attracted a full complement of eighty teams from BAOR, UK and Gibraltar as well as local Cyprus based Units. The event, now the premier long distance event in the Services Sporting Calendar, starts at sea level in Episkopi and ends on the first day at Troodos. In between, five check points are negotiated and over thirty two miles of often hostile terrain is covered. After an overnight stay, the competitors complete the dis- tance in reverse order, in all about sixty five miles. This year hopes were high for the RAOC Cyprus team which had trained hard in an attempt to emulate the now defunct Para Heavy Drop Team which won in 1974. However, victory still eluded our team, although against stiff opposition to finish fourth for the second consecutive year, was splendid. The 'B' team also ran and walked tremendously to finish in fourteenth place. General Whalley, visiting Cyprus, must have been de- lighted to hear the Village Blacksmith played by the 1 Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Regimental Band when the team of W02 Long, Staff Sergeants Stanton and Curtis collected their awards. Although there were no awards, our second team consisting of W02 Leach, Sergeant Keogh and Lance Corporal Devlin can be proud of their placing in this most arduous of events. Photo D. Glapa. Mrs Olga Clapa. Olga travels with Mr Wojtulewicz, a local haulier who owns a transit van, and raises money to pay for petrol with raffles. The clothes, food and medical supplies are donated by local schools or charities. Her trips are made during her annual leave and receive full support from her husband Joseph, who was brought up as an orphan and so feels deeply for the plight of Polish children. The photograph shows Olga at work as a Storekeeper on Issues Packaging in the Central Processing Building. She has been employed in the Depot since 1960 and has earned consider- able respect from everyone for her charitable work. ROUND THE HORN ? FOR over one hundred and thirty years the record time of eighty nine days, twenty one hours for sailing a ship under canvas from New York to San Francisco, round Cape Horn, has not been beaten—or equalled. It was set up on 1851 by the 'Flying Cloud,' the fastest Clipper ship ever built in America, built by the famous Scots builder Donald MacKay in his New York yard. An important element in the record breaking run was the crew, needing obviously to give of their best but not for any reason of pride of seamanship or threat of harsh punishment; simply because they had all caught that awful- malady—gold fever. 1851 was the height of the San Francisco Gold Rush so the faster the crew could sail the ' Flying Cloud' the quicker they could desert at journey's end, find a pick and shovel and join the frantic mobs at the gold fields! The well known yachtsman Chay Blyth is, as you probably Photo Captain C. W. P. Emmett. IHEADQUARTERS lETROLEUM-CENTRE Staff Sergeant Curtis leads W 2 Long and Staff Sergeant Stanton into fourth place at the end of the Cyprus Walkabout 1 9 8 3 . For the record, 1 Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders captured first and second places and last year's winners from BAOR, 7 RHA finished third. lOYAL ARMY ORDNANCE CORPS MERCY MISSION D O N N I N G T O N TO POLAND MRS OLGA GLAPA came to England from her native Poland in 1948. She now lives at 15 Wheatley Crescent, Hadley, near COD Donnington, with her husband Joseph, and son Jan aged fifteen. Olga has now completed four trips to Poland, a round four thousand mile journey, with clothes, shoes and medical supplies. She was so shocked by the lack of basic essentials on her initial visit in October 1982 that she returned at Christmas 1982/83, April and June 1983. On each occasion her visa permitted a six-day stay which allowed time to visit a children's orphanage for one to five year olds at Kalisz and a convent in Krakow. Photo G. K. Gillberry. Staff Sergeant Eric Blunn who was to have taken part with Chay Blyth on the San Francisco record attempt. 244 — |
| Book number | R0406 |