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Dear Linda

Yes, it was a typo - that was another significant date, whoops. I have a list of family member names and connections to discuss that could help establish any possible link.

Thanks again, Salli

My father worked aftr the war in Thompson's department. He did not like the man. He, too, was a "boy from Brixton" and achieved high rank - arranging the security for the visit of Bulganin and Kruschev, looking after General Eisenhower, supervising the security for the Coronation.

I was walking past the TV in the living room when I was stopped in my tracks by a B&W photograph featured on the TV program about Churchill's bodyguard - I fleetingly [mistakenly] thought it was my Granddad (wasn't aware at this point of the program subject). Walter Henry Thompson is an absolute spitting image of my late Granddad.

Thought nothing of it at first and put it down to coincidence when suddenly his name appeared as Walter Henry Thompson, the same surname as my late Granddad George Thompson, also nicknamed "Tommy".

I was wondering if anyone knows the ancestral routes of Walter Henry (AKA Bodyguard to the Bulldog) and whether his parents were previous Irish potato farmers which could explain why he was one of eleven and very poor, living in Victorian England - the family having possibly fled the famine in the mid 19th Century to settle in the Eastend of London, where WHT was born in 1950.

Walter's stiff and very upright posture, face, shoulder line and figure is EXACTLY like my granddad - my grandma used to call my Granddad "a piece of toast" because he was so erect in stature. WHT would have been old enough to be my Granddad’s uncle (my Granddad’s Dad’s brother).

I would love to know more and contact Linda Stoker WHT's grand niece, does anyone have her details in Somerset? I am off to buy the book now, fascinating subject anyway.

Thank you.

Salli