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The Wasp: The Journal of the 16th Foot, Volume 9; 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.

1938-1939

From: 1938 To: 1939

Number 1 March 1938: 250th Anniversary Celebrations; Air Defence of Great Britain; National Defence Companies in Scotland; A Padre’s Viewpoint; Annual Training in Retrospect; Allied Australian Regiment; Fifty Years with the 16th Foot Number 2 - June 1938: portrait of Lieutenant-General Sir H C Jackson; Fifty Years with the 16th Foot; Chitral 1895; The First City Regiment of South Africa; Guarding Prisoners of War - 5th Provisional Company, 1st Battalion 1919; Isazai Campaign 1892; The Army Through Russian Spectacles; Number 3 - September 1938: 250th Anniversary Commemoration Service and Celebration Dinner; laying the foundation nstone of the Church of the Transfiguration, Kempston; naming of the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment railway engine; Bandsman Frederick Barrett; death of Sergeant-Major James Salmon; MSM awarded to ex-Quartermaster Sergeant James Bowd; Frederick Wolff Ogilvie, ex-4th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment, elected Director -General of BBC; Mountain Warfare Course on the North-West Frontier; Chakrata-Ghangora and Back in Under 60 Hours Number 4 - January 1939: photograph of ex-Quartermaster Sergeant John William Marshall; 250th anniversary appreciation by Sir Arnold Wilson MP; Mons War Museum; presentation to 16th Australian Infantry Battalion (Cameron Highlanders of Western Australia); Gallipoli in Retrospect; A Guest at Jutland by Ernest Clegg, late Captain, 7th Battalion Number 5 - April 1939: photograph of Captain William Headland; Toc H; Presentation to the 16th Battalion, Australian Infantry; History of 1st Battalion Prince Albert Volunteers (Canada); obituaries of Rev Reginald Fawkes and Major John Stanley Lightfoot; 1688 and All That Number 6 - July 1939: photograph of Captain Frederick Wombwell; Lieutenant-General John Skinner; Bedford House, Jaffa; 1688 and All That; 2nd/1st Bedfordshire Yeomanry annual dinner; obituary of Colonel Harold Pope; Ramleh War Cemetery Number 7 - December 1939: photograph of former chief constable of Bedfordshire, Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Frank Stevens; The Militia; Militiaman’s Impressions 1939; Fifty Years with the 16th Foot; Auxiliary Territorial Service; Locre 6th November 1914; The British Army, Its Origin and Evolution; Colonel Ho. Robert Brudenell (d. 1768); Infantry Trainig Centre Notes; 6th Battalion Notes

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Jackson, Henry Cholmondeley,
Barrett, Frederick,
Salmon, James,
Bowd, James,
Ogilvie, Frederick Wolff,
Marshall, John William,
Wilson, Arnold,
Clegg, Ernest,
Headland, William,
Fawkes, Reginald,
Lightfoot, John Stanley,
Wombwell, Frederick,
Skinner, John,
Pope, Harold,
Stevens, Frank Augustus Douglas,
Brudenell, Robert

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, anniversaries, peace and battles celebrations/commemorations, air warfare, general, Scotland, Australians, Chitral, South Africans, prisoners of war, Afghanistan, Russians, KEMPSTON, rolling stock, BBC, North West Frontier, Chakrata, Ghangora, Gallipoli, Mons, 16th Australian Battalion, Toc H, 1st Battalion Prince Albert Volunteers, obituaries, Jaffa, Bedfordshire Yeomanry, Ramleh, police, militia, Auxiliary Territorial Service, Locre