• Reference
    X550/1/292/10
  • Title
    The Wasp: The Journal of the 16th Foot Volume 10 recurring articles include ITC Notes; old comrades’ news; personalia; Hertfordshire Regiment Notes
  • Date free text
    1945-1946
  • Production date
    From: 1945 To: 1946
  • Scope and Content
    Number 1 March 1945: photograph of General Sir Henry C Jackson; History of the 2nd Battalion 1939-1940; obituaries of Captain Douglas Snowden and Company Sergeant Major William Herbert Mart; roll of honour Number 2 June 1945: photograph of Kempston Barracks on VE Day; History of the 2nd Battalion 1940; obituary of Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Thomas Spicer; Notes of an ex-Japanese Prisoner-of-War; honours and awards Number 3 September 1945: History of the 2nd Battalion 1940; obituary of Major S O de B S Macartney; 12 Section, 6 Troop, Number 3 Commando in Sicily; King’s Messenger; 9th Battalion, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment; Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment Prisoner-of-War Fund; Notes from 2nd Battalion; roll of honour Number 4 December 1945: photograph of Lieutenant-Colonel D Rhys Thomas, commander of 1st/5th Battalion at Singapore; Short Story of 5th Battalion [at Singapore]; obituary of Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Douglas Gaye; Ceremonial Changing of the Guard at Athens; 1st Battalion, the Chindits; Regimental Music; 9th Battalion Notes; Notes from 2nd Battalion Number 5 March 1946: History of the 1st Battalion 1939-1946; Army Cadet Force in Bedfordshire; obituary of Lieutenant-Colonel George Pilkington Mills; 9th Battalion Notes; Princess Elizabeth’s Visit to Bedford; Regimental Comforts Fund; honours and awards; roll of honour for 5th Battalion Number 6 June 1946: photograph and obituary of Lieutenant-Colonel Cleland Bulstrode Cumberlege; Short History of 1st Battalion 1939-1946; obituary of Captain Hugh Frederick Lambart Sladen; The Fifth Battalion in Captivity; honours and awards; roll of honour of 5th Battalion Humber 7 September 1946: photograph and obituary of Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Montrein Cressingham; Short History of 1st Battalion 1939-1946; Blenheim Day 1946; 1st Battalion News; 2nd Battalion News; Queen Elizabeth’s Visit to Hertfordshire; Presentation of Honorary Freedom of Borough of Bedford to the Regiment; honours and awards; roll of honour 5th Battalion Number 8 December 1946: Presentation of Honorary Freedom of Borough of Bedford to the Regiment; Army Cadet Force in Bedfordshire; Short History of 1st Battalion 1939-1946; 2nd Battalion Operations in Italy and Greece 1944-1945; Early History of 5th Battalion; 1st Battalion Notes; 2nd Battalion Notes; honours and awards; extracts from London Gazette
  • Level of description
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