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The Wasp: Journal of the 16th Foot Volume 14, regular features including: personalia; 1st Battalion and Regimental Depot Notes; Hertfordshire Regiment (TA) Notes; 5th Battalion (TA) Notes; sport; photographs; news from old comrades branches; East Anglian Brigade News; Bedfordshire Home Guard; Bedfordshire Army cadet Force; brief obituaries; Regimental Museum; extracts from London Gazette

1953-1955

From: 1953 To: 1955

Number 1 April 1953: the Regimental Engine; The Bedfords Come to Town - On Guard; 8th Battalion 1940-1942 Number 2 August 1953: photograph and obituary of Brigadier Charles Calveley Foss VC; Tobruk ’41; Presentation to Colonel G A Anstee; retirement of Assistant Secretary of the Association J A Shrives; Royal review of Ex-Servicemen and Women, Hyde Park; Visit to Regimental Depot by Coronation representative from Allied Australian Regiment; Disbandment of Militia Units; obituary of Lieutenant-Colonel Hon Michael Bowes-Lyon Number 3 December 1953: Blenheim Gathering 1953; Visit to Bedford of Mayors of Dunkerque and Ver-sur-Mer; Presentation of New Colours to 1st and 5th Battalions; Regimental Association; Visit to the Royal Scots; Presentation from Northamptonshire Regiment; obituary of Major L Curtis; The Yogi of Bhagalpur Number 4 April 1954: Football Wallahs; Military Essay Competitions; Milocarian Athletic Club; Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regimental Association Benevolent Fund; Seniority Roll of Warrant and Non-Commissioned Officers; obituary of Captain J A M Hislop Number 5 August 1954: photograph and obituary of Brigadier James S Davenport; Notes on Life with the Malay Regiment; Uneasy Truce in Jerusalem; Royal Scots; Trials in Burma (Post War); Tenth Anniversary of D-Day; Regimental Weekend; obituaries of ex-Corporal S G Gray, ex-Lieutenant Frederick William Hedges VC and ex-Company Quartermaster Sergeant George William Sugars Number 6 December 1954: 250th Anniversary of the Battle of Blenheim; A Link With the First Sir Winston Churchill; Imphal and Kohima Military Cemeteries; Duke of York’s Royal MIlitary School and Queen Victoria School; Lord Kitchener Memorial Holiday Home; Journey to Salonika; Trials in Burma Post War; Jerusalem or Bust!; 1st Battalion in the Middle East 1951-1954; obituary of Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Macpherson Dobell Number 7 Spring 1955: Our First Commanding Officer (Colonel Archibald Douglas); National Association for Employment of Regular Sailors, Soldiers and Airmen; The Federation Regiment [Malaya]; Military Essay Competitions Number 8 Summer 1955: Presentation of New Colours; obituary of Colonel Hugh Stainton Poyntz; Burma 1948-1955; A Visit to France; King’s African Rifles in Malaya; National Association for Employment of Regular Sailors, Soldiers and Airmen; Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment Association Benevolent Fund accounts

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Foss, Charles Calverley,
Anstee, G A,
Shrives, J A,
Bowes-Lyon, Michael,
Curtis, L,
Hislop, Joseph A M,
Davenport, James Salter,
Gray, S G,
Hedges, Frederick William,
Sugars, George William,
Churchill, Winston,
Kitchener, Horatio Herbert, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum,
Dobell, Charles Macpherson,
Douglas, Archibald,
Poyntz, Hugh Stainton

Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment, photographs, named portraits, Hertfordshire Regiment, obituaries, 1st Battalion Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment, Depot Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment, 5th Battalion Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment, Hertfordshire Regiment, sport, Home Guard, museums, London Gazette, 8th Battalion Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment, rolling stock, Tobruk, London Hyde Park, 16th Australian Battalion, Australians, militia, Blenheim, peace and battles celebrations/commemorations, BEDFORD, Dunkerque, Ver-sur-Mer, Bhagalpur, Royal Scots Regiment, Northamptonshire Regiment, football, Milocarian Athletic Club, athletics, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment Benevolent Fund, Malay Regiment, Burma, Jerusalem, Imphal, Kohima, cemeteries, Duke of York's Royal Military School, Queen Victoria School, Salonika, Soldiers and Airmen National Association for Employment of Regular Sailors, France, King's African Rifles