Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    X550/1/292/12
  • Title
    The Wasp: The Journal of the 16th Foot. Vol 12
  • Date free text
    1949-1950
  • Production date
    From: 1949 To: 1950
  • Scope and Content
    Regular contents: Editorial; Personalia; 1st Battalion Notes; Regimental Depot; Herts Regiment Notes; Hertfordshire Cadets; 5th Battalion Notes; Bedfordshire Cadets; East Anglian Brigade Group News [from September 1949]; Comrades Notes; Obituaries; Births, marriages and deaths; Editorial notes. Also: No.1, March 1949: The Roll of the Drum in Regimental History; Battle of Walcourt, 1689; Our Allied Regiments - First City Grahamstown, South Africa; A Visit and Presentation to the Allied Regiment in Canada, The Prince Albert and Battleford Volunteers; Obituaries: Benjamin Martin (photo); Charles Brett Suttle; C.S.M. J. Hoptroff; S. Stringer No.2, June 1949: Appeal for 1939-1945 Regimental War Memorial; Captain J.B. Kitto describes his recent visit to the French Army; The Regiment's Attack on Schellenberg, 1704; Badges of Rank, Regimental Officers; St. Peter-upon-Cornhill; "Through a Smoke Cloud" [memoirs of an old soldier, Part V]; Obituaries: Harry Cook, Charles A. Mardell, A. Scrivenor; Force of Habit 35 Years Ago by Brig. J. Macready [memories of WW1]; The Old Brigade, 6th Battalion Bedfordshire Home Guard; Royal Military Mmorial Chapel, Sandhurst. No.3, September 1949: Obituary, Major Brian C. Pincombe; Bleinheim Gathering 1949; Ex-RSM F. Laurence (photo) [veteran of Egyptian campaign]; The Army List 40 Years Ago; 50th Anniversary of South African War; Memories of a South African Veteran; Badges of Rank, Regimental Officers [Part II]; The Group System Explained; Cassino British Military Cemetery. No.4, December 1949: Obituary, Lt. C.W. Griggs; Bedfords with Suffolk Regiment in Malaya. No.5, March 1950: Brief record of 1st Battalion's foreign service, 1925-1950; 1st Battalion's Farewell to Greece; William Wooding, age 82 (photo); Melle, 1745; Lt.-Col. J.R. Harper (photo) [appointed to command of 5th Battalion]; The Territorial Army in 1639; News from Malaya; The Essex Regiment; The Northamptonshire Regiment; Battle Honours Borne of the Colours of Regiments of the East Anglian Brigade; Obituaries: H. Head, D.C.M., Lt. (Q.M.) Johnson; Lord Montagu Collett Norman, D.S.O.; Lt-Col. Richard Rouse-Boughton Orlebar; J.W. Croft; Memories of a Volunteer (by Ex-Cpl. E.H.N. King); Strange Occurrences; Sadlers Wells Ballet in America. No.6, June 1950: Return of the 1st Battalion from Overseas; Copy of the B.B.C. Broadcast to Greece; The Regiment's Presentation to Allied Dominion Regiment; Obituaries, Major Francis Marshall Bassett, John Burton Healing, Alfred Cumberland, H.R. Heymer, Mary Louise Curteis. No.7, September 1950: Regimental Badge presented to H.M.The Queen (colour photo); The 1st Battalion the Hertfordshire Regiment (T.A.) in Italy, July 1944 to January 1945 (Part I); Obituaries: Amy Debenham, Percy Callaby, J. Jarvis, Mary Ann Hammond, E. Chandler; Wavell [General]; Regimental Memorial Window, St. Peter-upon-Cornhill; Bedfords with 1st Battalion the Suffolk Regiment, Malaya. No.8, December 1950: Visit of H.M. Queen Elizabeth to her Regiment; Unveiling of Regimental Memorial Window; Death notices: Phillip Dobson; Lt-Col. A.R. Sharpe; Capt. J. H. Mayne; Lt-Col. Harold Eustace (Peter) Carey; "Little Grey Home in the West" and the Hertfordshire Regiemtn (Territorials); The 1st Battalion the Hertfordshire Regiment (T.A.) in Italy, July 1944 to January 1945 (Part II); Obituary: Captain Joseph H. Mayne
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