• Reference
    X550/15/24/17
  • Title
    The Wasp. Journal of the 16th Foot. The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment Association.
  • Date free text
    Autumn 2001
  • Production date
    From: 2001 To: 2001
  • 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. Service with the Bedfs & Herts in India and Tripoli in 1947, by Captain Peter Steyn (p.31); service at Salonika and Warminster, 1949/50, by G. Hamer (p.36); story of Robert Boyd MM who won his gallantry award in Burma and who medals have been donated to The keep (p.37); First World War obituaries of 2nd Lt Henry Shaw of Nottingham (killed 1917) 2nd Battalion; Pte Charles Bushby, Harlington, 8th Battalion (1916); Pte John Aylott, Bedford, 7th Battalion (1917); 2nd Lt Reginald Herbert Secretan, 1st Herts (1917), Sgt John Hammond, Ware, 1st Herts (1917); Pte Claud James William Sweeney MM, 1st Herts (1917); Army Life, part three, 1942-1945, by Ken Steward (p.45); tales of My Army Experiences by the late Danny Hearn (p.50); death notices for Capt. H.E. (Peter) Browning (obituary); G. Bryant; Major W.J. Calder; Harry Fuller; Charles North (obituary); Derek James Itzinger; ColinT. D. Lawrence (obituary); B. C. Lincoln; Eric Stanley Madlin; Norman Rand (obituary); D. A Roffey; Major Ray Saunders (obituary); Philip Saunderson (obituary); Major William Ernest Walter Scales (obituary); E.G.A Scrogie; John Seabrook (obituary); F.J. Shaddock; Charlie South; Dr Walter John Street (obituary); Joan Swain; David Swayne (obituary); Col. I.L. Watkins; Colonel Alec Salom (obituary)