LATEST NEWS We are very pleased to report new contacts: Tetcott Veteran: Eric Travis And the family of: Kenneth Whitaker We are sorry to report that Len Ridge 'crossed the bar' early this year. Our sympathies go to his family. HMS TETCOTT GET-TOGETHER Saturday, 7th June & Sunday, 8th June 2008 A Get-Together has been arranged in Holsworthy on the above weekend. We will be meeting in Holsworthy Market Hall on the Saturday afternoon with a dinner in the evening. On Sunday there will be a service at Tetcott Church followed by the laying of a wreath on Tetcott's War Memorial, and an inspection of the Memorial oak planted at the reunion in October 2006. For further details please email holsworthymuseum@btinternet.com 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. May 2008

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.