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From: Martin Willcocks <>
Subject: TA in Walthamstow, Essex
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 18:04:08 -0700


Hi Iain and all:

Searching the archives for Walthamstow Essex I came across your message
from 2000 RE: [WWI]Balkans 1915.

I am looking for anything relevant to the Territorial Army at
Walthamstow in WW I where my father served. He was not posted abroad,
but was a gunner atop Whipps Cross Hospital in Walthamstow. He manned a
Lewis gun, and was charged with shooting down Zeppelins.

According to TNA, they have no records, as many were destroyed by a bomb
in 1939. Nothing found on the Medal Cards site, but I know there is
still a TA unit stationed close to Whipps Cross at Lea Bridge Road,
Walthamstow.

Any ideas about how to find out more would be helpful. For example, the
officers stationed there during WW I. I have a photo from which one or
more might be identifiable if anyone else has similar connections. The
officer is seated, with three stars on the armband and has a sword. I
would presume he was the C/O and the other three men in the photo
(including my father) were also officers.
.
Regards
Martin Willcocks
Taylorsville, UT, USA.

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