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

Spring 2000

From: 2000 To: 2000

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. Article by Ray Hambling on how he found his 1947 all-India bantam-weight boxing belt (p.18 plus centre page photographs); escape by Captain M. H. Mallet, prisoner-of-war of the Italians duting the Second World War; reflections on demobilisation by Bill Larkin (p.23); anecdotes of Billy Pickess and Charlie Monks who fraudulently enlisted in East Surrey Regiment in 1934 (p.25); memories of John Perry, joined 1st Battalion, 1950 (p.30); memories of Danny Hearn, part four (p.35); death noticies for: Mary A. Butler; Nellie Bacchus, wife of late Charlie; Doctor David Evans (obituary); Leon Fish (obituary); S. D. S. Fisken; Joseph Buchanan Gilchrist; Ernest Langrish; Captain Glyn Lloyd (obituary); G. W. Nicholson; Major Daniel John Bebbington (obituary); Captain Nicholas Twells (obituary); Major Geoffrey Whitworth (obituary).

Hambling, Ray,
Mallet, M H,
Larkin, Bill,
Pickess, Billy,
Monks, Charlie,
Perry, John,
Hearn, Danny,
Butler, Mary A.,
Bacchus, Nellie,
Bacchus, Charlie,
Evans, David,
Fish, Leon,
Fisken, S.D.S.,
Gilchrist, Joseph Buchanan,
Langrish, Ernest,
Lloyd, Glyn,
Nicholson, G.W.,
Bebbington, Daniel John,
Twells, Nicholas,
Whitworth, Geoffrey

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