We wish you all a very happy and healthy 2010 UPDATE SAD NEWS We very much regret having to report that four HMS Tetcott Veterans have 'crossed the bar' since the last update. DONALD 'Dinkie' DEWS - November 2008 JOHN GRANVILLE WEST - July 2009 JOHN BROOKS - September 2009 JOE WILSON - October 2009 Our sincere sympathy is extended to all their families and friends. They will be sadly missed. NEW CONTACTS We have been very fortunate in being contacted by Veterans: ERIC BUSH LS 1943-1945 DONALD HASKELL ARTHUR HENRY CHARLES HUGGETT AB 19 June - 2 Dec 1945 LEN SCOTT ?-1944 Families of the following HMS Tetcott crew have also got in touch: PERCY THOMAS GEORGE CAPEL 1945 (contact son Peter) ALFRED FREETH Stoker/Chief Stoker 1943-5 (contact son Malcolm) WILLIAM WARD IBBS Stoker1 Dec 1941-April 1944 (contact grandson Glenn) JOHN CYRIL LANGFORD DSM Acting Petty Officer (contact son Dave) TOM LEWIS Surgeon Lieutenant Dec 1941-March 1943 (contact wife Peggy) R G REES Medical Officer 1945 (contact son Nick) BILL REID 1944 (contact daughter Debbie) VICTOR WILLIAM TURNER July 1943 (contact granddaughter Rachel) These details will soon be added to the relevant pages Janet If you have any information you can add to the Museum’s archive regarding HMS Tetcott we would appreciate your contacting us. As we hear of crew names that haven’t been mentioned before, we will be adding them to our list of ‘Other crew’. Again, please get in touch if you can add any details, or memories, of them. December 2009

This project started out on a very small scale and just escalated beyond our wildest expectations. Whereas we thought we had done extremely well to originally make contact with seven veterans, that number increased to twenty within a few short months of 2006. There was also a similar increase in the number of families of deceased crew that we managed to locate.

It is thanks to all of these people that we have managed to acquire so many invaluable photographs and memories to provide a lasting memorial to this small Second World War destroyer. Our thanks also go to all of them for their unfailing encouragement and enthusiasm.

Holsworthy Museum’s HMS Tetcott collection now includes many photographs, copies of two of the notebooks written on the bridge, a copy of a 1942 diary kept by the Sick Bay Attendant, and the ship’s morse key kindly donated by Barry Johnson. Copies of service records and other documents have also been kindly donated.

However, we know that there must still be more veterans and families with information somewhere who we haven’t managed to contact to date, and we would be delighted to hear from anyone who would be willing to share with us any memories or photographs of the ship or, indeed, any information about HMS Tetcott.

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This website has been funded by a grant from ‘Awards for All’. The grant also helped with the cost of the book ‘Tetcott – the Thrill of the Chase’, and the reunion of veterans and families in October 2006.