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SISTERS IN THE SERVICE PROUD mum Mrs Dee Sherratt couldn't help but wonder how many other sisters are serving together in the Fleet besides her daughters, Terri and Clare. WSA Terri Sherratt recently left HMS Ark Royal and is now at North Corner Group, Portsmouth. Her younger sister, WAEM Clare Sherratt has just taken up a draft at RN air station Culdrose, having previously been at HMS Daedalus.
i-RNR COMMODORE RETIRES^ COMMODORE George Cooper, one of the few to achieve the highest rank in the Royal Naval Reserve, has retired after 30 years' service. His pennant was officially hauled down at HMS Wessex, the RNR training centre based at 50 Berth, Southampton Docks. Personnel at Wessex paraded to mark the occasion and the Commodore inspected the
Guard. His pennant came down at Sunset at the hand of his son, Sub-Lieut. Richard Cooper RNR. While Richard carries on the Cooper family tradition of Reserve service at HMS Wessex, brother lain is an active member of the Royal Marines Reserve. Commodore Cooper's civilian job is Chief of Operations with the Royal National Lifeboat Institution at Poole.
Wiltons roll out the red carpet
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YOU couldn't get a setting more apt than the Rovers Return for the reunion of HMS Exeter's Chiefs with the whining Wiltons, Derek and Mavis. The Chiefs, newly returned from STANAVFORLANT duties, dropped in at the best little boozer in Weatherfield at the invitation of Coronation Street stars Peter Baldwin and Thelma Barlow, who don't whinge a bit in real life. Peter and Thelma had issued the invitation after they were welcomed on board for drinks way back on Boxing
Day during the Exeter's Venice stopover while on Adriatic deployment The newly-formed Coronation Street Appreciation Society (HMS Exeter branch) is pictured behind the "dry" bar — from left, CPOs Topsy Turner, Buck Rogers (Mess President), Tex Lunt, Jacko Jackson, Springer Leek, Guy Howells and Baz Stafford.
ZAP POW WOWEE! A 1963 Roy Lichtenstein cartoon poster, with its "think bubble" suitably inscribed, was presented to Lieut.-Cdr. Brad Reynoldson by the First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Julian Oswald, during a visit to the RNR Air Branch training weekend at HMS Osprey. A gift from his colleagues, the poster recognised Brad's contribution as leader of a mobile air operations team during the Bangladesh cyclone relief work last year. Earlier, Brad had been awarded the Commander-in-Chief Fleet's Commendation for his outstanding performance during Operation Manna.
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TO MARK his 40 years service to the thirsty, Law Yau — head barman at the Joint Services Senior Ranks Mess at HMS Tamar — has been presented with an inscribed silver salver by mess members. Known as Chico, he began culate just how many drinks work as a barman at the POs Chico has served to Servicemen Mess in Tamar at the age of 18. and their guests over the past When the naval dockyard 40 years. Enough to float a friclosed in 1959 and the POs gate, probably! Mess combined with the CPOs He is shown receiving the salMess, Chico also made the ver from joint chairmen of the move. He moved again three JSSRM, WOMEA Trevor years later to the mess in the Payne and WO 1 (GSM) Ken new HMS Tamar. Hammel. Other presentations He was still there in 1979 to him included a pair of gold when the mess went tri-service cufflinks from the Chinese and moved to its present locamembers of the mess and a tion in the Prince of Wales congratulatory letter from the Building. No-one cared to calPrince of Wales.
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Top grade ADMIRAL Sir John Kerr, Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command, presented the Howard Johnston Memorial Sword to the top student of the Royal Naval Submarine School's advanced warfare course, Lieut. David Pollock (pictured right).
JAN Estall, who joined the Women's Royal Naval Service in 1977 as a Wren Radar Operator, has scored a double first by becoming the first female SD officer and the first SD instructor officer. Jan passed out from Britannia Royal Naval College this summer as a Sub Lieutenant Instructor Officer. Having successfully completed professional, academic and leadership training at Dartmouth, she is now following a post-promotion course of academic studies and current affairs at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, and is looking forward to taking up a teaching appointment at HMS Collingwood.
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