Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    X550/1/292/7
  • Title
    The Wasp: The Journal of the 16th Foot. Vol 7.
  • Date free text
    1934-1935
  • Production date
    From: 1934 To: 1935
  • 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, March 1934: R.S.M. P.J.Hunt, DCM (photo); The Army Officers Art Society; A Diary of A Journey to the Far East, Part I; Memories of an Old Comrade, Part II. No.2, June 1934: Lt.-Col. J. Macready (photo); What shall I do with my boy? [the Army Technical School]; Memories of an Old Comrade, Part III; The Taking of Namur 1695 [extracted from "History Repeats Itself, 1695-1919"]; The 1st Battalion in Jhansi, 1903-1907; Ex-Cpl. C.H. Hartley, b.1850, Chelsea Pensioner (photo). No.3, September 1934: Obituary, Pte. E. "Dick" Ettridge; Memories of an Old Comrade, Part IV; Battle of Melle, 1745; Battle of Walcourt, 1689. No.4, December 1934: Story of Canada's Mounted Police, Part I; Obituary, Alfred William Waspe; Diary of a Journey to the Far East, Part II; The Keys of Gibraltar - and Mediterranean Manoeuvres; Travel in South America, Part I. No.5, March 1935: Sergt. G.R. Maxey (photo); Story of Canada's Mounted Police, Part II; A Busman's Holiday [Leave on the Indian Frontier]; My First Buffalo; Grave of Major E. A. G. [Eric Aylmer Goldney] Snell, killed in action in Tanganyika, 16 November 1917 (photo); Obituary, William Samuel Ward; Travel in South America, Part II; The "War" in Munshiganj. No.6, June 1935: Obituary, Colonel Tom Hammond (photo); A Jubilee Shoot in East Bengal; Story of Canada's Mounted Police, Part III; An Old Dutch Print of the Battle of Walcourt; A Recent Battlefield Tour [WW1 Battlefields]; Casualties; The Training Season in Eastern Bengal; Tattoo and Jubilee Celebrations. No.7, September 1935: Obituary, Colonel The Lord Ampthill, Arthur Oliver Villiers Russell, 2nd Baron Ampthill (photo); Impressions of England by Major Ottavio Medaglia, Italian Army; My Visit to the Saar, Part I; The "Good Old Days" in India; Jubilee Celebrations; Secrecy in Bengal; Holiday Camp at Jaydepur; River Trips at Dacca; Farewell Tea Party to Rai K. Maitra Bahadur; Hot Weather Pony Racing in Dacca; Doing Dacca; Retirements, 5th Battalion: R.S.M. E. Crouch (photo), Bandmaster W. Goodger. No.8, December 1935: Lt-General. H.C. Jackson (photo); My Visit to the Saar, Part II; Across Siberia in Seventeen-and-a-half Days; 12,000 Miles in Two Months [Journey from Dacca to Japan and back]; A Village Wedding; East and West; General Sir James Craig, 1748-1812; A Sweaty March [Yemen]; Gurkha Celebrations in Dacca; The Farewell to Dacca [1st Battalion leaves]; The 2nd Battalion Picture of Walcourt [paintd by Lawson, with black and white photo]
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