LATEST NEWS HMS TETCOTT GET-TOGETHER Saturday, 7th June & Sunday, 8th June 2008 The Get-Together was enjoyed by all who managed to attend. Once again, the weather was very kind to us with lovely sunshine nearly all the time. It is hoped to add another page to the website to include photographs. It was a great pleasure to be able to meet Tetcott Veteran John West for the first time. COMMANDER JOHN ALEXANDER JEFFREYS DENNIS OBE It was with great regret that we heard that AleC 'crossed the bar' on 29th June 2008 aged 90. His obituary can be found on line on both The Times and Telegraph newspaper websites. NEW FAMILY CONTACT Earlier this month we were visited by Mrs Joan Adams and her daughter Jo. Joan's husband, Arthur Adams, served in HMS Tetcott from the beginning of the war. Jo is hoping to be able to find more information. ***STOP PRESS*** We have just heard that the HMS Tetcott Veteran living in South Africa is planning a trip to the UK and hopes to visit the Museum in mid-September. If anyone would like to come along to meet him, please contact Janet. Many apologies to those who have been waiting to see the website updated - unfortunately this has been delayed to ill health. 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. August 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.