• Reference
    X550/15/24/20
  • Title
    The Wasp. Journal of the 16th Foot. The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment Association.
  • Date free text
    Spring 2003
  • Production date
    From: 2003 To: 2003
  • 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. Samuel Charles Whitbread, new president, including photograph (frontispiece); article regarding addition of name of Robert Davis, 1st Bedfords, killed 1914, to Swaffham war memorial (p.11); a Brief history of the Association's Benevolent Fund (p.25); memories of Goslar, written by Reginald Robinson in 1956 (p.29); article on the Archives of the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment, by Nigel Lutt (p.30); notes on VC holder Alexander Burt of Chesham (p.34); history of the 82nd (West African) Division, Royal West African Frontier Force, by Stan Mansfield (p.36); memories of ken Porter, 5th Battalion pow, continued (p.41); letter by Arthur Wallis describing medical teatment of 5th Battalion pows (p.59); death notices for W.F. Asker; Major John Bricknell (obituary); T.N. Garner; Major J.A. Girdwood, popularly Donald Girdwood (obituary); Peter Hall (obituary); A. Gough; Ron Major (obituary); Harry W. Mills; J.P. O'Brien; Nathan Payne; L.F. Philpott; Norman Reynolds (obituary); Major R. Saunders; Canon Frederick Stallard; E.C.R. Sorrell; Gordon Stiff (obituary); Major General A.J. Ward-Booth (obituary);