• Reference
    X550/1/292/15
  • Title
    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
  • Date free text
    1955-1957
  • Production date
    From: 1955 To: 1957
  • Scope and Content
    Number 1 Winter 1955: Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst; Exchange Au Pair; Regimental Weekend; Corps of Commissionaires; Royal Soldiers Daughters’ School; Army Ski Association; obituary of W F Stiles Number 2 Spring 1956: Laying-Up of Old Colours of 1st Battalion; Exercise Royal Scot; Dinner and Civic Welcome by Mayor and Corporation of Bedford to 1st Battalion; Thirty Years Ago; Officers’ Pensions Society Number 3 Summer 1956: photograph of two Bedfordshire Regiment VC holders - Christopher Augustus Cox, Thomas Edwin Adlam and A A Burt of the Hertfordshire Regiment; Regimental Association Annual Reunion Dinner; Groesbeek Memorial; Cassino Memorial; Regimental Weekend; Army Cycling Union; Military Essay Competitions; National Association for Employment of Regular Sailors, Soldiers and Airmen; Thirty Years Ago; March Through the Counties of Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire 1903; Saint George’s Memorial Church, Ypres; Presentation of 1st Battalion of Silver Table Piece to the Mayor’s Parlour, Bedford Number 4 Winter 1956: Location List of Officers; Unveiling of the Cassino Memorial; Atomic Trials at Maralinga; The Gold Coast; Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst; Prsentation of Ornamental Park Seat to Borough of Watford; Visit to Vineyards of Germany; March from Sennelager to Goslar; obituary of Air Vice Marshal Sir Tom Webb-Bowen Number 5 March 1957: Army Benevolent Fund; Bedouin Command; Piccadilly Handicap 1909; Union Jack Service Clubs; Officers’ Retired Pay; Regular Forces Employment Association; Manoeuvres 1910; East Anglian Brigade Officer Visits the Vikings [Norwegian exchange]; photograph and obituary of Colonel E C M Phillips; obituary of Brigadier G A C Ormsby Johnson Number 6 June 1957: Army Rifle Association; Unveiling of the Singapore Memorial; Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regimental Dinner Club; Bedfordshire Regiment Dinner Club; Regular Forces Employment Association; Army Essay Competitions; Bedford Modern School Combined Cadet Force Number 7 September 1957: photograph of Lieutenant-Colonel John Anthony Hunter; Reorganisation; Unveiling of the Dunkirk Memorial; Regimental Weekend; Regular Forces Employment Association; Manoeuvres 1910; Canoeing Down the Mosel; Soltau Murmurs; Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment Association Benevolent Fund Number 8 December 1957: Regimental Association Annual Reunion Dinner; Regimental Silver; A Bedford at Blenheim; Blenheim Day Celebrations; Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment Association Benevolent Fund accounts; photographs and obituaries of Brigadier-General W R H Dann and F T Coe
  • Level of description
    item