• Reference
    X550/15/24/19
  • Title
    The Wasp. Journal of the 16th Foot. The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment Association.
  • Date free text
    Autumn 2002
  • Production date
    From: 2002 To: 2002
  • 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. Including memories of Malta, June 1948 (p.22); Memories of 50 years ago in the Canal Zone, Egypt, by Ron Hope and Doug Adams; memories of National Service in 1950 by Geoff Saunders (p,27); Mules, Ponies and Horses with the 16 Column, by L.A.C. Reynolds (p.40); memories of Edward Osler, joined 1926 (p.43); memories of ken Porter as 5th battalion pow, continued (p.44); death notices for: Major Henry Arnell (obituary); Peter Ausden; Derek Banks; Mrs M. Beasley; Mrs J.C.A Birch; Jimmy Dix (obituary); Briagadier W.T. Dodd; Harry Farrow; W. Harrington; H.P. Hart; Harold Hills; Lt. Col. H.J. Orpen-Smellie; L.T. Plumley; Sidney Smith; Major General J.A. Ward-Booth; E. George Weston (obituary); Don Wicks; Brian William Fearon (obituary);