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Title
The Wasp: The Journal of the 16th Foot Vol. 3
Date free text
1926-1927
Production date
From: 1926 To: 1927
Scope and Content
Regular contents: editorial; Old Comrades' Corner (obituaries); 1st Battalion news; 2nd Battalion news; Depot news; 5th (T.A.) Battalion news; 1st Battalion Herts Regiment news; letters to the editor; regimental gazette; births, marriages and deaths; editorial notes. Also: No.1, April 1926: Col. Arthur Nairn Lysaght (with photo); History of the 8th (Service) Battalion (Oct 1915-Jan 1916); Old military customs; the Bedfordshire Regiment in 1782 (Part I); Early history of the 2nd Battalion, 1858-69 (Part I); the action at Walcourt, 1689; 8th Battalion News. Obituaries: Pte. W.B. Sewell; ex-Q.M.S. S. Stratford. Death notices: Pte. J.L. Evans; Lt-Col. Charles du Plat Richardson Griffiths. No.2, July 1926: Lt-Col. T. Longridge, D.S.O.(with photo); History of the 8th (Service) Battalion (Feb-June 1916); Meeting of 1st and 2nd Battalions at Malta, April 1926; The Bedfordshire Regiment in 1782 (Part II); Early history of the 2nd Battalion, 1858-69 (Part II); History of the 8th (Service) Battalion (Feb-June 1916); Meeting of 1st and 2nd Battalions at Malta, April 1926; The Bedfordshire Regiment in 1782 (Part II); 2nd Battalion abroad; The mosquito campaign; Unemployment. Obituaries: George Buck; Richard Churchouse. Death notice: Charles Clibborn Courtenay. No.3, October 1926: Lt-Col. Henry Wise Unett Coates, D.S.O. (with photo); History of the 8th (Service) Battalion (Aug-Oct 1916); The Bedfordshire Regiment in 1782 (Part III, concluded); Typhoon; Early history of the 2nd Battalion, 1858-69 (Part III); The situation in China; An incident in the relief of Chitral, 1895; Unemployment; Mililtary traditions of Enniskillen. No.4, January 1927: Colonel Robert William May Wetherell (with photo); History of the 8th (Service) Battalion (Nov 1916-Oct 1917); Trooping the Colour in 1760; Early history of the 2nd Battalion, 1858-69 (Part IV, concluded); Captain F. Corner, M.C. (photo); Small arms training; Remarkable family record (Ruse family, with photos of Sergt. W.A. Ruse and R.Q.M.S. W.J. Ruse); Lt-Col. J.S. Collings-Wells, V.C.; South Africa for settlers; Trees. Obituaries: Captain Peter E. Byrne; William George Ryan; George Darlow; William Waldron; Sergt-Major George Walker (photo). Death notice: Pte. C. Rockall. No.5, April 1927: Colonel Thomas Hammond (photo); The situation in China; History of the 8th (Service) Battalion (Nov-Dec 1917); The Chinese; Beat of Drum; Army Officers' Art Society. Obituaries: Edward Rowe; Stephen Murphy. Death notices: George Allsop; Archie Beard; John Crick; L. Moulding; Michael Joseph Shelly. No.6, July 1927: Major John Edward Laurie Gibbes (photo); History of the 8th (Service) Battalion (Dec 1917-Feb 1918, concluded); Empire settlement; Employment innovation; Civilization and Gunpowder; Anzac Day 1928; Obituaries: Archibald Beard; Ernest Alfred Baxter; Leonard Moulding; Albert Edward Perkins. Death notice: John Dunn. No.7, September 1927: Lt-Col. Arthur Grey Duberley (photo); History of the 4th (Special Reserve) Battalion, 1916-1919 (Jan-May 1917); Capture of a snow leopard in Ladak; Regimental tradition; The evolution of the machine gun; The canteen - past and present; Shanghai (illustrated); Sailing on the Wangpoo. Obituary: Col. Arthur Nairn Lysaght. Death notices: Charles Courtenay Marshall Kennedy; Joseph Frederick Methuen. No.8, December 1927; Major Francis Marshall Bassett (photo); History of the 4th (Special Reserve) Battalion, 1916-1919 (Jul-Nov 1916); Empire settlement; War medals; Shanghai: In terms of British Work and Wages. Obituaries: S.N.S.Kennedy; Col. Richard Griffith; Harry Johnson; George William Webb. Death notice: Private J. Addis, at Wei-Hai-Wei, China, of heatstroke
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