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ACC ASSOCIATION NEWSLETTER

Official Opening of The Royal Logistic Corps Museum on 13th May 2021

by Colonel-in-Chief The Royal Logistic Corps, Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal

As Patron, the Princess Royal had agreed to offically open the Royal including “Sustaining Forward”, depicting chefs
Logistic Corps Museum and was accompanied by the Lord Lieutenant manning a field kitchen during the Gulf War are
of Hampshire. She was greeted by the Master General of Logistics permanently hung in The Princess Royal Room
RLC, Lieutenant General (Retd) Sir Mark Poffley and introduced to within the Museum).
the Chairman of the Museum Trust Major General (Retd), Seamus There are many references to the ACC through-
Kerr. Museum Director Simon Walmsley then led the way around out the museum some of which are shown in the
the museum introducing the many people involved in supporting or accompanying photographs, and a special room
working on the project. houses the RASC/RCT medal collection, one of
As the ACC Association representative, and the finest in any museum. Here you can see replicas
trustee of the RLC Museum Trust it was a privilege of RLC and Forming Corps VC and GC medals,
for me to meet Her Royal Highness and to describe the originals being kept elsewhere under secure
“A Lull in the Battle”, the painting by Terence
Cuneo. This had been commissioned by the Army
Catering Corps (ACC) to illustrate the part played
in the Falklands War by ACC soldiers in 1982. At
the centre of the painting stands WO2 (SQMS)
David Ogden ACC, a veteran of 3rd Battalion
The Parachute Regiment. The Princess Royal was
very interested in the description of the No1 cook
set and pointed out the proximity of another one conditions. Other medal groups including those
being fuelled nearby. I explained that this was not of ACC veterans are displayed at the entrance to
normal practice but artistic licence! She was also the room. A Soyer Stove with an accompanying
interested in the other duties performed by chefs “exploded” version has pride of place with an audio/
when not cooking. These included helicopter mar- visual display about Alexis Soyer in the background.
shalling and loading, perimeter security, guarding Elsewhere a fully loaded No5 cook set is displayed
prisoners, medical assistants and even manning as well as an ACC Sergeant’s Mess Dress and many
gun emplacements as well as delivering food and other artefacts and pictures. For those that remem-
ammunition. All this and still getting the evening ber him Lieutenant Colonel (QM) Jim Tierney
meal out on time! (Both of the ACC Cuneos, has pride of place with his medals and the “Tierney
Square” road sign rescued from the St Omer
Barracks drill square. For those who don’t know
him Jim was a fierce but fair man who joined the
RASC in 1937, transferred to the ACC after the

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