• Reference
    X550/15/24/24
  • Title
    The Wasp. Journal of the 16th Foot. The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment Association.
  • Date free text
    Spring 2005
  • Production date
    From: 2005 To: 2005
  • 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. Notes on service of Lt Varley Bousfield, killed 1940, by grandson Robert Bousfield (p.23); note regarding appeal by 1/5th Bedfords for a bull dog mascot, 1915 (p.26); history of the Regiment and its associations with freemasonry, by Captain Brian Crisp (p.27); tribute to Drum Major Ron Simmonds, by Mick Holder (p.30); national service, 1955-57, by Ben Bradshaw, part one (p.35); experiences of Myer Green, 5th Battalion pow, part three (p.40); death notices for: Charlie Bacchus; Dorothy Bayliss, wife of George; Major S. Chatting (obituary); Maurice Cooper (obituary); R. Deane; John C. Farrer (obituary); D.S. Gilbert; William Gordon Harley (obituary); R. Harrop; Mrs R.K. Harrop, formerly Davidge, Mrs P. Hefford; Major General M Holme; Brigadier J. Hunter, R.J. Kidd, R. Kirkham; Colonel G.W.C. Mayes, J.S. Mayhew; Ruth Miles; T. Parsons; Mrs J. Peters; Robert Norman Row (obituary); C.B. Taylor; Capt. R.G.T. Turner; S. Turpin; D. Slaughter; Mrs L.E.A. West; J. Young; S.D.S. Fisken (obituary)