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The Wasp: The Journal of the 16th Foot, Volume 8; recurring articles include 1st, 2nd, Depot, 5th Battalion and Hertfordshire Regiment (TA) Notes; photographs; Regimental Gazette of personal milestones, old comrades news, humour, poetry and sport.

1936-1937

From: 1936 To: 1937

Number 1 March 1936: portrait of General R J Baumgartner; 12,000 Miles in Two Months; Across Siberia in Seventeen-and-a-Half Days; An Elephant Shoot; The Romance of Cochin Harbour; Colonels of the Regiment Number 2 June 1936: Memories of the 16th Foot, 1869-1877; A Trip to Cairo; The Hertfordshire Militia as I Knew it in the Seventies; photographs; A Trip to South America; The Regimental March; 6th Battalion Reunion; obituaries of Major James Stanley Richardson and Bandmaster E A Barratt. Number 3 September 1936: Army Day at Kempston Barracks; King Edward VIII and His Army; 16th Foot and the Capture of Surinam 1804; Kashmir The Happy Valley Number 4 December 1936: The Suk of Nablus; poetry Number 5 March 1937: photograph of Major George A N Logan Home; War Department Constabulary; Territorial Recruiting Problems; Home Via the Pacific; Notes on Palestine Operations; photograph of Major W H Ridgewell Number 6 June 1937: Vocational Training; That Rampur-Moti-Singhi Business, Training in Simoor State; My Experience in India before, During and After the Chitral Campaign of 1895; Music and Marches; obituary of David Richmond Number 7 September 1937: Our Allied Australian Comrades; Award of medal of the Military Division of the British Empire to Sergeant W H Johnston; Reminiscences of India; Hike to the Snow Mountains (in Waziristan) Number 8 - December 1937: photograph of Major F H Osborne; Training for Civilian Life; the Schellenberg [stormed 1704]; A Coronation Visit to England by an Indian Army soldier; Fifty Years with the 16th Foot; German Recruits in the Regiment in 1776; retirement of Major E G Fanning.

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Baumgartner, Robert Julian,
Richardson, James Stanley,
Barratt, E A,
Edward VIII,
Logan Home, George A N,
Richmond, David,
Ridgewell, W H,
Johnston, W H,
Fanning, Eric Gerard,
Osborne, F H

Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment, photographs, named portraits, 1st Battalion Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment, 2nd Battalion Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment, Depot Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment, 5th Battalion Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment, Hertfordshire Regiment, poetry, Siberia, elephants, shooting, Cochin, Cairo, militia, South America, scores, 6th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment, obituaries, Waziristan, Surinam, Kempston Barracks, Kashmir, Nablus, Palestine, India, Chitral, Australians, 16th Australian Battalion, Schellenberg, Indians, Germans