Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    X550/1/292/4
  • Title
    The Wasp: The Journal of the 16th Foot. Vol. 4
  • Date free text
    1928-1929
  • Production date
    From: 1928 To: 1929
  • Scope and Content
    Regular contents: editorial; Old Comrades' Corner (includes 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, March 1928: Obituary: Major Reginald Le Huquet (photo); Regimental museum; "Shanghaied"; The peacemakers; The Bedfordshire Regiment in 1914; Lt-Col. H. A. Wernher; The King's levee; History of the 4th (Special Reserve) Battalion, 1916-1919 (Apr 1917-Jan 1918); Empire Settlement; The Chinese pony; Shanghai, No.3. Obituaries: Sergeant Harry Shotbolt No.2, June 1928: Lt-Col. James Paumier Tredennick (photo); Shanghaied; The peacemakers; War medals of the Beds and Herts Regiment; History of the 4th (Special Reserve) Battalion, 1916-1919 (Jan-Apr 1918); The Mystery of China; Oorial shooting in the salt range of the Punjab. Obituaries: Major George Miller, M.V.O (bandmaster); Frederick Fookes. No.3: September 1928: Col. Spenser Jackson (photo); Captain J. A. Hislop; The Regiment; History of the 4th (Special Reserve) Battalion, 1916-1919 (Apr-Aug 1918); Blinded in war!; War medals of the Beds and Herts Regiment; Brief history of the 4th Infantry (First City) Regiment, Union Defence Forces, South Africa (Part I); Stabilization of war pensions; News from China; Rev. W.R.F. Addison, V.C. (photo). Obituaries: L. Harvey; E.A. Champnesss (killed in car accident); Miles Bush. No.4, December 1928: Obituary: Major-General Thomas David Pilcher (photo); Bedfordshire Regiment in Battle: Marshal Foch's Tribute (special Christmas message to men of the Beds Regiment); The Regimental Museum; An interesting record: Major James Henry Plummer (photo); History of the 4th (Special Reserve) Battalion, 1916-1919 (Aug-Nov 1918, concluded); Big game preservation in South Africa; Smoking imperially; Lt-Col. Charles Harman; How the public gets the news; Sergeant-Majors with a homely smile; Brief history of the 4th Infantry (First City) Regiment, Union Defence Forces, South Africa (Part II); B.E.F. Memorial at La Ferte-sous-Jouarre; Overseas settlement; Tangshan Defence Force; Shanghai No.4. Obituaries: Alderman Albert Wilkinson, J.P., Mayor of Luton; Sergt. Frank Stokes; Albert Edward Black. No.5, March 1929: General Frederick Rudolph Lambart, 10th Earl of Cavan (photo); the Regimental Museum; 16th Foot in 1778; Brief history of the 4th Infantry (First City) Regiment, Union Defence Forces, South Africa (Part III); The Ypres Memorial Church; History of the 6th Battalion (Part I); 2nd Battalion officers in 1914 (photo); Co-operation with the Navy; Now the public gets the news, Part II; South Africa's problem of immigration; With the 1st Battalion in China; Tangshan Defence Force; A visit to the Manchurian battlefields; Some recollections of my four years with the 2nd Battalion, by "Saxo"; Overseas Settlement Committee; Colour-Sergeant Thomas Bull (1831-1910, photo). Obituaries: Major A. A. Fraser; Alec Hamer; J. Moore (photo) No.6, June 1929: Lt-Col. Edgar William Brighten (photo); Lady Ampthill's "At Home"; Lt-Col. W.R.H. Dann; Brief history of the 4th Infantry (First City) Regiment, Union Defence Forces, South Africa (Part IV); A Regimental History; Officers and Sergeants, 1st Battalion, Moolton, India 1898 (photos); History of the 6th Battalion (Part II); Obituary: Lt-Col. Percy Thuillier Westmorland; Some notes on vocational training; Infantry head-dress through the ages; The Army List 1836; Notes from China; First impressions of Mhow; Pig-Sticking; Big game experiences of a novice in India. No.7, September 1929: James Stanley, 10th Earl of Derby (illustration); Regimental Museum; Regimental Button-Hole Badge; Overseas Settlement; Notes on civil employment; History of the 6th Battalion (Part III); Mandu. No.8, December 1929: Lt-Col. John McMaster Milling (photo); Act of gallantry performed by L-Cpl. L.E. Cromey on 2 Sept 1929; Regimental Button-hole Badge; Locre Day; Regimental War Memorial Fund; A trip to the battlefields; History of the 6th Battalion (Part IV, concluded); Overseas settlement; Vocational training in India; Armistice Day, 1929 in France; Further Shikar experiences of a novice [tiger hunting].
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