• Reference
    X550/1/292/6
  • Title
    The Wasp: The Journal of the 16th Foot. Vol. 6
  • Date free text
    1932-1933
  • Production date
    From: 1932 To: 1933
  • Scope and Content
    Regular contents: editorial; Vocational training; Old Comrades News (includes obituaries); 1st Battalion news; 2nd Battalion news; Depot news; 5th (T.A.) Battalion news; 1st Battalion Herts Regiment news; regimental gazette; births, marriages and deaths; editorial notes. Also: No.1, May 1932: Obituary, Major Edward Duroure Pickard-Cambridge; Particulars of Victoria Cross awards (Part V, Lt. Frederick William Hedges); Review of Regimental History; Big Game. Shikar; Short History of the 1st, 2nd & 3rd Garrison Battalions No.2, July 1932: Recent history of the North-West Frontier of India; Particulars of Victoria Cross awards (Part VI, Pte. Samuel Needham); The Salonika Reunion Association; Regimental Prisoners of War Help Committee; C.Q.M.S. E. Trumper; Obituaries and death notices: Sidney Hubert Lucock; E.E. Bird; K.H. Green; J. Burke. No.3, September 1932: Particulars of Victoria Cross awards (Part VII, Pte. Edward Warner); Obituary: Field-Marshal Viscount Plumer; Short history of the 11th (T.F.) Battalion; Notes on the Australian Light Horse; Shikar Notes; Officers Advisory Society; The Union Jack Club. No.4, December 1932: Colonel The Viscount Hampden (photo); Particulars of Victoria Cross awards, Hertfordshire Regiment (Part I, Corpl. A.A. Burt); Short history of the 4th Battalion; SS City of Boston; Running, a necessity to games and how to make it interesting; Cpl. J. Wells (photo) No.5, March 1933: Lt & Qtrmr W. Headland (photo); Particulars of Victoria Cross awards, Hertfordshire Regiment (Part II, 2nd Lt. Frank Edward Young); An echo of Waterloo (letter written by Edward Neville Macready of the 30th Foot, age 17); The Legion of Frontiersmen; A shooting trip in Tanganyika; Historic billets. No.6, June 1933: R.S.M. G.E Fowler, DCM (photo); Historic Billets; Corporal E. Shotbolt, All India Heavy-Weight Champion 1932 (photo) No.7, September 1933: R.S.M. F.W. Thurley (photo); Retirement of Lt-Col. John McMaster Milling (photo) and Major A.D. Gaye (photo), 1st Battalion; Retirement of Major William Wynter Wagstaff, 2nd Battalion No.8, December 1933: R.S.M. Henry Patrick Munson, MBE (photo); A history of the Hertfordshire Regiment; Home from "The Rock"'; A Pilgrimage [visit to regimental graves in Ceylon]; Memories of an Old Comrade Part I; Kailana [India].
  • Level of description
    item