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The Wasp: The Journal of the 16th Foot Vol. 2

1924-1926

From: 1924 To: 1926

Regular contents: editorial; 1st battalion news; 2nd battalion news; depot news; 5th (T.A.) Battalion news; 1st Hertfordshire Regiment (T.A.) news (to October 1924 only); letters to the editor; regimental gazette; births, marriages and deaths; editorial notes. Also: No.1, April 1924: Late Lt-Col. John Cassels Monteith; Captain William White; history of the 2nd Battalion in the Great War (Sept 1915-June 1916); Army Vocational Training Centre, Hounslow Heath; Beds and Herts Regiment Benevolent Fund; War Office items. Death notice: Emma Harriet Elizabeth Longridge, wife of Lt-Col. Theodore Longridge. No.2, July 1924: Lt-Col. H.S. Poyntz, D.S.O.; history of the 2nd Battalion in the Great War (July-Oct 1916) with photograph of officers who took part in the Somme battles. No.3, October 1924: Captain A.G. Hall; Regimental panel in the chapel of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; history of the 1st Battalion in Ireland 1920-1922 (Part I); history of the 2nd Battalion in the Great War (Oct 1916-Jan 1918); Schwaben, September 1916 (poem); a year with the Beds and Herts Regiment; Old Comrades' Association. Death notices: Rita Francis Barton, daughter of Cpl. J. Barton; Pte. A. Bassett; Pte. H. F. North; L/Cpl J. Smith; Major-General Basil Clifton Westby. No.4, January 1925: Captain and Brevet-Major Hugh Courtenay, D.S.O., M.C; history of the 1st Battalion in Ireland 1920-1922 (Part II); history of the 2nd Battalion in the Great War (Jan 1918-Mar 1918); life in a new French village; the North-West Frontier of India; the 1st Battalion Colours. Death notices: Pte W. Leonard, "the result of an accident" at Biggleswade; Pte. A. Dernell; Gwendolen Evelyn Lemon, wife of Major Arthur Bushe Lemon. No.5, April 1925: Lt-Col. Richard Owen Wynne; Old Comrades Association; history of the 1st Battalion in Ireland 1920-1922 (Part III, part has been removed from volume); history of the 2nd Battalion in the Great War (Mar-May 1918); A convoy problem; Coffee planting in Guatemala; the Beds and Herts Regiment and the British Empire; A trip into Rhodesia (by England cricketer Captain F.W.J.Nicholas); employment for ex-soldiers of the Regiment. Obituaries: Mrs. Ann Ellen Huxham (survivor of the Siege of Lucknow, mother of Colonel William Henry Riddell); Major Edward Arthur Haggard (brother of Sir Rider Haggard); Sergeant A.F. Cobbold, D.C.M., M.S.M. Death notices: Ada Kathleen Hill, daughter of Sergt. S.W. Hill; Pte E. Smart. No.6, July 1925: Lt-Col. Henry Walter Weldon D.S.O., with Special Order announcing his death to military forces in Iraq and obituary; history of the 1st Battalion in Ireland 1920-1922 (Part IV); history of the 2nd Battalion in the Great War (May-Sept 1918); Dedication of memorial window in St. Alban's Cathedral; Annual Reunion and Regimental dinners; The War Strength Platoon (humorous). Death notices: Aubrey William Hadfield, son of Col-Sgt W.H. Hadfield; Lt-Col. Henry Weldon. No.7, October 1925: Captain C.E.G. Shearman; Lt-Col. W. Allason, D.S.O.; history of the 1st Battalion in Ireland 1920-1922 (Part V); history of the 2nd Battalion in the Great War (Sept 1918-June 1919); Army vocational training centres. No.8, January 1926: Lt-Col. Hugh Iltid Nicholl, D.S.O.; history of the 1st Battalion in Ireland 1920-1922 (Part VI, concluded); Tales from the Trenches, No.1; Balances of deceased soldiers; A discharge paper nearly 200 years old (photographs); history of the 8th (Service) Battalion (Sept 1914-Sept 1915); The Buttons of the Beds and Herts Regiment; The Soldiers' Prayer Book (1773 newspaper article); Old Comrades' Corner; Regimental Memorial Cottage Homes. Death notices include: Clr-Sergt. J. Curley; Captain F.C.R.Muller; Captain R.E. Oakley, M.C.; Pilot Officer Cecil William Montague Smith, R.A.F. "as the result of an accident near Eastchurch".

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Monteith, John Cassels,
White, William,
Longridge, Emma Harriet Elizabeth,
Longridge, Theodore,
Poyntz, H S,
Hall, A.G.,
Barton, Rita Francis,
Barton, J.,
Bassett, A.,
North, H.F.,
Smith, J.,
Westby, Basil Clifton,
Courtenay, Hugh,
Leonard, W.,
Dernell, A.,
Lemon, Gwendolen Evelyn,
Lemon, Arthur Bushe,
Wynne, Richard Owen,
Huxham, Ann Ellen,
Riddell, William Henry,
Haggard, Edward Arthur,
Haggard, Rider,
Cobbold, A.F.,
Hill, Ada Kathleen,
Smart, E.,
Nicholas, F.W.H.,
Hadfield, Aubrey William,
Hadfield, W.H.,
Allason, W,
Shearman, C.E.G.,
Nicholl, Hugh Iltid,
Curley, J.,
Muller, F.C.R.,
Smith, Cecil William Montague,
Oakley, R.E.

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