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The Wasp. Journal of the 16th Foot. The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment Association.

Autumn 1998

From: 1998 To: 1998

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. Includes article by Peter Hall on Last days of the Raj, 1st Battalion in India, 1945-47 (p.21); re-discovery of All India boxing belt won by Ray Hambling in 1946 (p,23); bayonet drill in Tripoli with the 1st Battalion (p.24); memories of Danny Hearn 5th Battalion, joined 1940, part one (p.30); plan of camp at Chakrata (centre pages); death notices of Robert Brown; H. Cook; J. J. Crane; Trevor Daikin (obituary); George Down (obituary); Phillip Edgerton; C. J. F. Fuller; D. Harris; Major W.G. Humphrey; Robert Gardner (obituary); Leslie Eric King (obituary); J. C. Langer; C.W.A. Lee;J. Long; Major C. McKenna; John Neal (obituary); R. L. Platt, Wallace Frederick Polkinhorn (obituary) ;Derek Rolt (obituary); Eileen Scaife, widow of Major J.E.N. Scaife;

Hall, Peter,
Hambling, Ray,
Hearn, Danny,
Brown, Robert,
Cook, H.,
Crane, J.J.,
Daikin, Trevor,
Down, George,
Edgerton, Philip,
Fuller, C.J.F.,
Harris, D.,
Humphrey, W.G.,
Gardner, Robert,
King, Leslie Eric,
Langer, J.C.,
Lee, C.W.A.,
Long, J.,
McKenna, C.,
Neal, John,
Platt, R.L.,
Polkinhorn, Wallace Frederick,
Rolt, Derek,
Scaife, Eileen,
Scaife, J E N

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