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Journal of the 3rd East Anglian Regiment (16th/44th Foot) following the amalgamation of the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment and the Essex Regiment - the volume includes the last edition of The Wasp (Volume XVI Number 3) and The Eagle, Journal of the Essex Regiment (Volume XVII Number 93) before the first edition of The Wasp and Eagle.

1958-1964

From: 1958 To: 1964

The Wasp Volume XVI Number 3 October 1958: photograph of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother; photograph of Brigadier C M Paton; Amalgamation of the Regiments; nominal roll of officers of 3rd East Anglian Regiment; Regimental Depot; list of commanders of Kempston Barracks; Regimental Museum; Hertfordshire Regiment (TA); 5th Battalion, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment; Bedfordshire Army Cadet Force; Hertfordshire Army Cadet Force; extracts from The London Gazette; personalia; Kranji memorial, Singapore; National Association for Employment of Regular Sailors, Soldiers and Airmen; Regimental Association Annual Reunion Dinner; news from the branches; obituaries and photographs of G R Maxey and S R Unthank The Eagle Volume XVII Number 93 October 1958: duplicating, in part, the contents of The Wasp; 4th Battalion, Essex Regiment (TA); obituaries of Charles T Sparrow and George Johnson; personalia; Essex Regiment Depot Notes; sport; branches news; Association of Sergeants (Past and Present), All Battalions, the Essex Regiment; Essex Army Cadets’ Annual Camp The Wasp and The Eagle editions include National Association for Employment of Regular Sailors, Soldiers and Airmen; personalia; regimental museums; sport; regimental depot; 1st Battalion, 3rd East Anglian Regiment; 1st Battalion Hertfordshire Regiment (TA); 5th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment (TA); 4th Battalion Essex Regiment (TA); Bedfordshire Army Cadet Force; Essex Army Cadet Force; extracts from The London Gazette; obituaries and photographs; news from the constituent regimental association branches; Military Essay Competition and nominal rolls of officers, warrant and non-commissioned officers, East Anglian Brigade Depot and regimental calender The Wasp and The Eagle Volume I Number 1 June 1959: presentation of colours to the new battalion; Military Essay Competition; Royal West African Frontier Forces Dinner Club; Army Art Society; National Association for Employment of Regular Sailors, Soldiers and Airmen; obituaries and photographs of Lieutenant-Colonel R N Thompson and Colonel J Somervell; obituary of Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas E Hearn; obituaries and photographs of Major A Milton and Christopher Augustus Cox VC The Wasp and The Eagle Volume I Number 2 December 1959: presentation of the freedom of entry to the Borough of Watford; Essex Territorials celebrate centenary; Civic Sunday; service of laying up the 1st Battalion Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment and 2nd Battalion Essex Regiment colours; Royal Victoria Patriotic School; Military Essay Competition; obituary of Brigadier J P Tredennick; obituaries and photographs of Richard Henry Sell, H W Cox, Ernest Thomas Lee, John Phillip Howard Brady, Major A Eric French and C H Coombs The Wasp and The Eagle Volume I Number 3 June 1960: photograph and biography of Lieutenant-Colonel T John Barrow; regimental chapel at Warley [Essex]; photographs of Sir Henry C Jackson, Sir Geoffrey W Howard and G H Wilmer; Army Art Society; Royal United Service Home for Girls; One Hundred Years of Volunteer Service; photographs and obituaries of Major R T Oldfield, Brigadier-General Walter Allason, Herbert F Russell and William Wright The Wasp and The Eagle Volume I Number 4 December 1960: 3rd East Anglian Regiment Dinner Club; farewell parade 3rd Grenadier Guards; nominal roll of officers, warrant and non-commissioned officers; Royal Merchant Navy School; Sergeant T Walker rescues a boy from drowning; Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation; Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes; Civic Sunday; Overland to Join 1st Battalion in Malaya; Regimental Band; Tales of a Tub - sailing the regimental boat in Malaya; photographs and obituaries of Harry Edward Barber, Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Sidney Chawner Grune, Archibald Frederick Little, Lieutenant-Colonel A A Crocker, Colonel T A Martin and Major Alexander Young The Wasp and The Eagle Volume I Number 5 June 1961: Regimental Chapel; recruiting; regimental exhibition; Army Benevolent Fund; National Association for Employment of Regular Sailors, Soldiers and Airmen; Royal United Service Institution; NAAFI fortieth anniversary; Dunkirk Veterans Association; Army Art Society; Imperial War Museum; Infantry Junior Leaders’ Battalion; Mons Officer Cadet School, Aldershot; Overland to Join the 1st Battalion in Malaya; photographs and obituaries of Captain William James Dixon, Lieutenant-Colonel A E Maitland; Cyril Price Bliss, Major Hugh W Alden, George Starns, Lieutenant-Colonel J E C Blakeney, Ernest Goddard, Major Lance I Barford and Major W W Wagstaff The Wasp and The Eagle Volume I Number 6 December 1961: photograph and obituary of Brigadier W H Wilmer; obituary of the Lord Lieutenant for Hertfordshire, David Bowes-Lyon; USS Essex; recruiting; Bedfordshire Militia Light Infantry; Army Benevolent Fund; Regimental Chapel; Civic Sunday; Unveiling of Athens Memorial; Infantry Junior Leaders’ Battalion; 1st Battalion, Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment (TA); Hertfordshire Regiment Dinner Club; 4th/5th Battalion Essex Regiment (TA); obituaries and photographs of Lieutenant-Colonel Angus Eric Methven Sinclair-Thomson, Colonel Thomas Gibbons, Major F H Osborne, Regimental Sergeant Major Charles Cheverton and Frederick Joseph Prior. The Wasp and The Eagle Volume I Number 7 June 1962: Royal United Service Home for Girls, Army Art Society; regimental chapel; recruiting; Union Jack Services Clubs; photographs and obituaries of Major Donald McLeod Hawkins, Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Hamilton Kelly, Major J G Culver and Colonel Richard William Wren The Wasp and The Eagle Volume I Number 8 December 1962: photograph and biography of Lieutenant-Colonel Michael W Holme; laying up of the old colours of 2nd Battalion, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment; The Victoria Cross; regimental engine; photographs of Lord Luke and Brigadier J A Longmore; photographs and obituaries of Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert Edmund Crocker, Lieutenant-Colonel D Rhys-Thomas; Lieutenant-Colonel John Hill Pattisson; Captain A L Ostler; Lieutenant-Colonel W A Shaw; Captain and Quartermaster Albert William Wright; Army Beagles Association The Wasp and The Eagle Volume 2 Number 1 June 1963: Gothic Line Re-Visited; presentation of The Essex Regiment engine nameplate; Army Art Society; British United Provident Association; photograph of Brigadier G W H Peters; photographs and obituaries of Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Crosby Halahan, Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Neave, Major James Andrew Baird Thompson, William Hardy, Charles H King, Walter Littlechild, Major John Nelson Coker and Major William Gerald Cowley The Wasp and The Eagle Volume 2 Number 2 December 1963: Civic Sunday; Regimental Chapel; British Olympic Association; From Bedford to the Sea by River; The Gothic Line Re-Visited; Trucial Oman Scouts’ rendezvous; Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe Officers’ Association; 300th Regiment RA (TA); photographs and obituaries of R T Warner, W T Wilson, Colonel Sir F Carne Rasch and S D Rees The Wasp and The Eagle Volume 2 Nunber 3 June 1964: re-organisation into 3rd Battalion, Royal Anglian Regiment; Regimental Chapel; Regimental Dinner Club; Regular Forces Employment Association; Pilgrimage to Cassino; Gothic Line Re-Visited; Duke of York’s Royal Military School; Crown Woods School; boat trip from Dieppe to Paris; The Forces Help Society and Lord Roberts’ Workshops; photographs and obituaries of T E Juson, William J Jones and Colonel Richard Valentine Read The Wasp and The Eagle Volume 2 Number 4 December 1964: photograph of Lieutenant-General Reginald F S Denning; photograph of Brigadier C M Paton; the new Journal of the Royal Anglian Regiment - The Castle; Soldiers’ Sailors’ and Airmen’s Families Association; Royal West African Field Force; Canons of Bayeux; photographs and obituaries of Leonard Alfred Platts and Lieutenant-Colonel Alan C Young

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Paton, C M,
Elizabeth (Queen of George VI),
Maxey, G R,
Unthank, S R,
Sparrow, Charles T,
Johnson, George,
Thompson, R N,
Somervell, J,
Hearn, Thomas E,
Milton, A,
Cox, Christopher Augustus,
Tredennick, James Paumier,
Sell, Richard Henry,
Cox, H W,
Lee, Ernest Thomas,
Brady, John Phillip Howard,
French, A Eric,
Coombs, C H,
Barrow, T John,
Jackson, Henry Cholmondeley,
Howard, Geoffrey W,
Wilmer, G H,
Oldfield, R T,
Allason, Walter,
Russell, Herbert F,
Wright, William,
Walker, T,
Barber, Harry Edward,
Grune, Edmund Sidney Chawner,
Little, Archibald Frederick,
Crocker, A A,
Martin, T A,
Young, Alexander,
Dixon, William James,
Maitland, A E,
Bliss, Cyril Price,
Alden, Hugh W,
Starns, George,
Blakaney, J E C,
Goddard, Ernest,
Barford, Lance I,
Wagstaff, W W,
Bowes-Lyon, David,
Sinclair-Thomson, Angus Eric Methven,
Gibbons, Thomas,
Osborne, F H,
Cheverton, Charles,
Prior, Frederick Joseph,
Hawkins, Donald McLeod,
Kelly, Arthur Hamilton,
Culver, J G,
Wren, Richard William,
Holme, Michael W,
Luke, Ian St.John, 2nd Baron,
Longmore, J A,
Crocker, Herbert Edmund,
Rhys-Thomas, D,
Pattisson, John Hill,
Ostler, A L,
Shaw, W A,
Wright, Albert William,
Peters, G W H,
Halahan, Arthur Crosby,
Neave, Richard,
Thompson, James Andrew Baird,
Hardy, William,
King, Charles H,
Littlechild, Walter,
Coker, John Nelson,
Cowley, William Gerald,
Rasch, F Carne,
Warner, R T,
Wilson, W T,
Rees, S D,
Juson, T E,
Jones, William J,
Read, Richard Valentine,
Denning, Reginald Francis Stewart,
Platts, Leonard Alfred,
Young, Alan C

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