• Reference
    X550/15/24/8
  • Title
    The Wasp. Journal of the 16th Foot. The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment Association.
  • Date free text
    Spring 1997
  • Production date
    From: 1997 To: 1997
  • Scope and Content
    Regular items include Editorial notes; news of the Regular battalions and Territorials; Personalia column; events and items of interest; extracts from previous Wasp magazines; news from the branches; deaths and obituaries; diary of events; photographs; new items for Regimentral Museum. Photograph of 'C' Company at Tripoli, named (frontispiece); notes of regimental music (p.24); short history of the regiment's November Wreath-laying ceremony and Reunion, part 2. 1950-1960 (p.26); recollections of the Chinese Labour Corps by 41728 Pte Norman Mellor, 4th Bedfs Regt. in the 'Sommme', by Lyn Macdonald (p.32); death notices for: E. Allton; Major Malcolm Schofield Beevers; A. R. Bennett; Major Charles Edward Britten (obituary); R Dunham or R. Durham; Capt.Thomas Lawson Gains; F. T. Hayes; M. G. Hogarty (obituary); Eric James Lucas; Major H. Marsh; R. Mason; M. R. Petty; Ernest Frederick George Pyant (obituary); Doreen Sutton, widow of Major Frank Sutton