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X550/1/292/11
Title
The Wasp: The Journal of the 16th Foot. Vol 11.
Date free text
1947-1948
Production date
From: 1947 To: 1948
Scope and Content
Regular contents: Editorial; Personalia; 1st Battalion Notes; 2nd Battalion Notes [to July 1947]; No.16 P.T.C. and Depot News; Herts Regiment Notes; 5th Battalion Notes; Bedfordshire Army Cadets; Comrades Notes; Obituaries; Extracts from London Gazette; Editorial notes. Also: No.1, March 1947: Obituary, Major F. H. "Skipper" Gale; "I Salute the 1st Battalion" by Lt.-Col. J.C. Preston; 2nd Battalion Operations (Italy and Greece), June 1944 until the end of war [cont. from previous edition]; Obituary, Alfred Barker. No.2, July 1947: Obituary, Supt. A.E. Conquest [assassinated in Haifa while serving with Palestine Police]; Suspension of 2nd Battalion; 2nd Battalion Operations (Italy and Greece), June 1944 until the end of war, July 1944 [continued]; Words used in the Army. No.3, October 1947: Retirement of Col. C. Henry Miskin (photo); Blenheim 1947; "Through a Smoke Cloud" [memoirs of an old soldier, Part I]; 9th Battalion, the Parachute Regiment, a Short History, Part I; 2nd Battalion Operations (Italy and Greece), June 1944 until the end of war, September 1944 [continued]; Obituaries: Lt-Col. F. "Bill" Edmonds; Charles Buckle; Ronald Mann; Alfred Sinfield. No.4, January 1948: Farewell letter from General Sir Henry C. Jackson, Colonel of the Beds and Herts Regiment; Remembrance Day 1947; "Through a Smoke Cloud" [memoirs of an old soldier, Part II]; 2nd Battalion Operations (Italy and Greece), June 1944 until the end of war, Final Operations in Italy [concluded]; 9th Battalion, the Parachute Regiment, a Short History, Part II; 1st Battalion, Historical Last Days in India; Retirement, Major A. "Bob" Milton; Obituaries: Harry Bryant, Lt.-Col. H. W. U. Coates, Lord Henry Page Croft, M.P., Peter Fall, Mrs. V.K. Foss, Brigadier-General Gladwyn Dundas Jebb, Thomas James Smith. No.5, March 1948: Letter from Major-General Sir Reginald F. S. Denning, Colonel of the Beds and Herts Regiment; "Through a Smoke Cloud" [memoirs of an old soldier, Part III]; 9th Battalion Parachute Regiment notes (affiliated to the East Anglian Brigade); Comrades notes with report on memorial service for Capt. Thomas Reginald John Mulligan, his son Squadron Leader A.J. Mulligan and daughter-in-law Mary Joan Mulligan who died on Air Liner Tudor IV, Star Tiger [disappeared in Bermuda Triangle 30 Jan 1948]; Obituaries: Hubert Frederick Barclay, Capt. T.R.J. Mulligan, Alfred Wilson. No.6, June 1948: Col. E.C.M. Phillips (photo); Reorganisation of the Regiment; Comrades notes include report on unveiling of memorial brass plate to Capt. Thomas Reginald John Mulligan at St. Peter-upon-Cornhill, London; Obituaries: F. Bowler, Henry Green, Frederick Ernest Wiles. No.7, September 1948: Departure of 1st Battalion from Tripoli; 1st Battalion at Salonika; Obituaries: Major R. Forrest (photo), Brig.-Gen. Charles Richard Jebb Griffith, L-Sgt. W. Kemp [killed in an a London air raid 10 May 1941, his only son aged 12 was drowned at the same time], Major S. J. Tabor. Supplement commemorating the amalgamation of the 1st Battalion of the Beds and Herts Regiment 1688 and the 2nd Battalion of the Beds and Herts Regiment 1858 to form the 1st Battalion of the Beds and Herts Regiment. Ceremony of amalgamation held at Salonika, Greece on 18 October 1948. No.8, December 1948: Ian St.John Lawson-Johnston, Col. The Right Hon. Lord Luke (photo); Obituaries: William Henry Parker, Major C.J. Rodwell, Q.M.S.I. P.G. Cyster, Remembrance Day 1948; "Through a Smoke Cloud" [memoirs of an old soldier, Part IV]; The 1st Battalion, 1914-1918; Pte. E. Warner V.C.; The late Mr. J. Reed [d.1904, photo].
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