• Reference
    X550/1/292/13
  • Title
    The Wasp: The Journal of the 16th Foot. Vol 13.
  • Date free text
    1951-1952
  • Production date
    From: 1951 To: 1952
  • 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; Comrades Notes; Obituaries; Births, marriages and deaths; Editorial notes. Also: No.1, March 1951: Unveiling and Dedication Ceremony, Regimental Memorial Window; Retirement of R.S.M. Robinson, M.B.E.; The Regimental Hymn; The 1st Battalion the Hertfordshire Regiment (T.A.) in Italy, July 1944 to January 1945 (Part III); Obituaries: Colonel Reginald (Percy) Worrall, Alfred Bean, Capt. Frank Corner; Major F.A. (Tod) Sloan; Million War Pensioners, Welfare Service Explained; 1939-45 Regimental War Memorial. No.2, June 1951: Christ Church, Mhow; The 1st Battalion the Hertfordshire Regiment (T.A.) in Italy, July 1944 to January 1945 (Part IV); Retirement of Col. The Hon. T. G. B. Morgan Grenville as County Cadet Commandant and replacement by Col. G. A. Anstee (photo); Obituaries, Marine Alfred Herbert George Hooper [died age 21 when submarine H.M.S.Affray sank in the the English Channel], John See, Ambrose Mark Beck [killed at work at Long Stratton, Norfolk], Sgt. E. Trumper; The Old Order Changeth (Part I). No.3, September 1951: Bleinheim Gathering 1951; Recruit Training Recommences at the Regimental Depot; Impressions of a National Serviceman; Catp. Frank Young, aged 80 (photo); D-Day Commemorative Ceremonies at Ver-sur-Mer; The 1st Battalion the Hertfordshire Regiment (T.A.) in Italy, July 1944 to January 1945 (Part V); Boys' Town, Modena, Italy; Death notices: W/Commander Keith Temple Lofts [result of a flying accident], Thomas Ayers, Philip Darlington [fatally injured in a road accident]; The Old Order Changeth (Part II). No.4, December 1951: The 1st Battalion the Hertfordshire Regiment (T.A.) in Italy, July 1944 to January 1945 (Part VI); The County March in 1903; Life at the Royal Hospital [Chelsea] and Conditions of Admission; Canada in August 1951; Obituaries: Sgt. Richard George Collison (photo), Frederick James Marshall, George Maxwell. No.5, March 1952: Warrant Officer C.C. Wells, awarded Meritorious Service Medal (photo); 1st Battalion Leaves UK for Middle East; 1st Battalion Commended for Rescue Work in Cyprus; The Regimental Museum [article from Beds Times, 7 Dec 1951]; The 1st Battalion the Hertfordshire Regiment (T.A.) in Italy, July 1944 to January 1945 (Part VII); National Service men in the T.A.; Death notices: Lt. C.G. Badrick; Col-Sgt James Robinson; Stanley Oswald Bishop; John Edward Wickham; George Samuel Dennis [licensee of Bricklayers Arms, Potton]; J. Wood; Bernard Wood; F.J. Hensman; Alan McKinstry Fleming; Spanish Journey (Part II). No.6, June 1952: Bleinheim Gathering 1952; The Rescue of the Crew of the "Porlock Hill", 1st Bedfords in Cyprus Exploit [article from Bedford Record 26 Feb 1952]; H.M. King George VI [inspection of Home Guard Battalions]; Wedding of Capt. John Aldersey Bacon and Miss Pauline Joyce Cowley (photo); Death notices: Capt. R. Maurice Hill; Galbraith Hodge; Leonard C. Cook; Spanish Journey (Part III); An Eventful Journey [near Tobruk] (Part I). No.7, September 1952: Brigadier J.A. Longmore, Honorary Colonel of the Hertfordshire Regiment (photo); Normandy Visit, 1952; Suez Canal Incident [report from Bedford Record]; The Regimental Museum; Death notices: C. Hadley, S. King, W.C. Whittington, William Ralph Williams [age 17 as the result of a motor accident], E. Merryweather, R. Bird, J.T. Newby; Obituaries: Capt. Charles Richard Hall, Arthur Egan; An Eventful Journey (Part II). No.8, December 1952: Colonel G.A. Anstee (photo); Bleinheim Gathering, 1952; Death notices: Leonard Arthur Wise, A.P. Williams, Herbert Joseph William Lawes, T.W. Andrews, M. O'Connor [as a result of a motorcycle accident], Major-General Sir Steuart Hare; Obituary: Alfred Pavey Williams, 1872-1952; The Mons Memorial.
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