CHRISTMAS 2010 We would like to wish you a MERRY CHRISTMAS and a very HAPPY NEW YEAR. APOLOGIES Please accept my apologies for the lack of updates to the site this year due to numerous problems I've had with my computer etc. If you have tried to contact me by email and received no response would you please try again. Some of my emails have 'disappeared into thin air' due to a faulty hard drive. You may also find that Christmas cards I've sent out will arrive late as we have been unable to get to the post due to the bad weather conditions to get them in the post. 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.

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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