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FURTHER CONTACT INFORMATION

The Royal Artillery Museum - contact them at the address below
Firepower, Royal Arsenal, Warren Lane, Woolwich, LONDON, SE18 6ST.
Tel: 020-8855 7755
Web site : www.firepower.org.uk/home/home.cfm
The archives are held in the James Clavell Library at the same address and telephone number.

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The Royal Signals -
contact the Archivist at The Royal Signals Museum at Blandford Camp BLANDFORD Dorset DT11 8RH Tel 01258 482248
Please note that initial contact on research and enquiries is best made in writing (not telephone) or E-mail: info@royalsignalsmuseum.com
Web site : www.army.mod.uk/royalsignalsmuseum/
Webmaster of this site is Cliff Walters

The East Surrey Regiment - researchers might find it worthwhile to contact The Surrey History Centre, 130, Goldsworth Road, Woking, Surrey, GU21 6ND.
Tel: 01483 518737
Email : shs@surreycc.gov.uk
Web site : www.queensroyalsurreys.org.uk/museum/museum.html

The Queens Lancashire Regiment, Fulwood Barracks, Watling Street Road, Preston, Lancs, PR2 8AA
Tel : 01772 260362
Web site: www.army.mod.uk/qlr/association/index.htm

Royal Regiment of Fusiliers (Northumberland) Museum, The Abbots Tower, Alnwick Castle, Alnwick, Northumberland, NE66 1NG,
Tel : 01665 602152
Web site : www.northumberlandfusiliers.org.uk

Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment Museum Collection, Luton Museum, Wardown Park, Luton, Beds, LU2 7HA
Tel : 01582 546 725
Web site : www.luton.gov.uk

Royal Norfolk Regiment Museum, Shirehall, Market Ave, Norwich NR1 3JQ
Tel : 01603 493649
Web site : www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk/default.asp?
(I found the Royal Norfolk Museum held quite a bit of information on my father - Carol Cooper)

Suffolk Regiment Museum, The Keep, Gibraltar Barracks, Newmarket Road, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk IP33 3RN
Tel : 01284 752394
Web site : www.suffolkregiment.org

Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road, London SE1 6HZ
Tel : 0207 416 5320
Website : www.iwm.org.uk

National Army Museum, Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, London, SW3 4HT
Tel : 0207 730 0717
Website : www.national-army-museum.ac.uk

Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen & Women
Web site : www.ajex.org.uk
The association has a museum in London, including a Far East section, to which everyone is welcome. Details on web site.
Anyone seeking information on Jewish FEPOWs can contact
Martin Sugarman - Email : Martin.Sugarman@westking.ac.uk

MoD Army Website : www.army.mod.uk
For Regimental Museums : www.army.mod.uk/museums/museum_regional_map.htm

Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Enquiries Section, 2 Marlow Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire SL6 7DX
Keep records relating to those who died in active service in the two World Wars.
Tel : 01628 63221
Website : www.cwgc.org/

Veterans Agency (formerly the War Pensions Agency)
Tel : 01253 333737
Website : www.veteransagency.mod.uk

'HMS EXETER'
Able Seaman Harry Kavanagh from 'HMS Exeter' was an administrator in Maccassar on the Celebes. Under the heading of 'The Harry (or Henry) Kavanagh Collection', his papers and are available for reference in the Imperial War Museum. The papers contain, amongst other things, a few lists of names which may be of interest to some.

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