Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    X550/1/292/5
  • Title
    The Wasp: The Journal of the 16th Foot. Vol. 5
  • Date free text
    1930-1932
  • Production date
    From: 1930 To: 1932
  • Scope and Content
    Regular contents: editorial; Vocational training; Notes on civil employment; 1st Battalion news; 2nd Battalion news; Depot news; 5th (T.A.) Battalion news; 1st Battalion Herts Regiment news; 8th Battalion Old Comrades Association; book reviews; regimental gazette; births, marriages and deaths; editorial notes. Also: No.1, March 1930: Lt-Col. Christopher Harold Miskin (photo); Regimental Museum; Overseas settlement (Tasmania); Kailan mining administration; Experiences in R101. Obituaries: Sir Charles Elton Longmore (photos); Lt. R.T.G. Herbert No.2, June 1930: Lt-Col. G.E. Fitzgerald (photo); Report on Regimental tablet to be placed in the Ypres Memorial Church; "Missing", the Bedfords who were not traced (with list of names of 1st and 2nd Bedfords inscribed on memorial at Le Touret Military Cemetery); Presentation of Regimental battle picture to the Corporation of Bedford. Obituary: Captain J.F. Christie. No.3, September 1930; Colonel Eric Charles Malcolm Phillips (photo); Obituary: Major Montague Henry Seymour; Regimental Museum; Polo in the 2nd Battalion; The return of the scarlet; The history of football (Part I); A short record of the 9th (Reserve) Battalion; The Army List in 1739-40; Obituary: Regtl.Sgt-Major C.F. Walker; History of the 5th Battalion; Officers' Advisory Society. No.4, December 1930: Frontispiece, The Mons Banner; Meritorious Service Medals (James King, Major F.W. Pillow); Locre Day; Bedfordshire Regiment Cottage Homes; The history of football (Part II); The Medal for Long Service and Good Conduct; New military decoration and medals; Short history of the 51st (Service) Battalion; British Soldiers returning from India, training for civil employment. No.5, April 1931: Lt-Col. Hanbury Pawle (photo); The Prince Albert Volunteers; History of Football (Part III); Particulars of Victoria Cross awards, Beds and Herts Regiment (Part I, 2nd-Lt Tom Edwin); The Bedfordshire Training Depot, Ampthill Camp; Xmas Leave 1930 (visit to Turkey); Presentation of Colours by H.H. The Rajah of Sarawak; the "Fighting Forces" Association; Obituary: Sergt. George Jarman. No.6, August 1931: Club swinging display by 2nd Battalion; Publication of Regimental history; Particulars of Victoria Cross awards (Part II, Lt-Col. John Stanhope Collings-Wells); Schellenberg, 1704; Short history of the 52nd (Graduated) Battalion; Old Comrades News, Obituaries: Capt. Maning Milton, Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett. No.7, November 1931: Particulars of Victoria Cross awards (Part III, Private Christopher Cox); A military "zoo": Animals as Regimental badges; The 16th Foot in Ceylon; Oil in Iraq; The Gibraltar Museum; Old Comrades News, Obituaries: Sgt. R.H. McCaffrey; Brig.-Gen. W.Allason (photo); Lt. C.A. Dixon (photo) No.8, February 1932: Particulars of Victoria Cross awards (Part IV, Capt. Charles Calverley Foss); Report of War Memorial Committee; Where are the young athletes?; The Gibraltar Museum; Short history of the 53rd (Service) Battalion; The Bedfordshire Brigade on the Rhine, 1919; Old Comrades News, Obituaries: ex-C.S.M. R. Field, Sgt. S. Roe
  • Level of description
    item
Hierarchy browser