• Reference
    X550/15/24/10
  • Title
    The Wasp. Journal of the 16th Foot. The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment Association.
  • Date free text
    Spring 1998
  • Production date
    From: 1998 To: 1998
  • 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 Regimental Museum. Items include retirement of Major David Thorogood as Area Secretary (frontispiece; photograph); presentation of commemorative portrait of 2nd Lt Tom Adlam, 7th Bedfords, VC, to City of Salisbury (P.24); memories of National Service by Major Robin Medley (p.27); article by Len Reynolds, The Last Years of the Raj: Mules and horses, Bombay, 1943-44; tale of mountain rescue at Chakrata with 1st Battalion, 1946, by Ray Hambling; short history of the Regiment's Wreath-Laying Ceremony, part three, 1961 to date (p.36); death notices for H. C. 'Charlie' Barber (obituary); George Bartram, First World War veteran (obituary); R. Burrage; Bert Cooper; Brigadier B. T. V. Cowey; T. Goldsmith MM; Horace Hearn (obituary); Major Michael Jones; Cyril Lewis; Bill Manville; Blanche Mitchell; Mrs M. T. Sherwood; Harold C. Walker; Colonel John Wetherall; N. T. Whiting, 'Tom' (obituary).