I am searching for anything on John Tillman 1845 - 1896 and his son Walter John Tillman 1875 -1962.
John I know was a Bandmaster with Tower Hamlets Volunteer Rifle brigade for nearly 20 years and I have most of the newspaper articles from British newspapers, however I find that for some strange reason Hampshire Archives have the following records :
Reference: 170A12
Description: additional records comprising muster rolls of the Rifle Brigade, 17th London Regiment Tower Hamlets Rifles, 28th London Regiment (Artists Rifles), war diaries, photographs, maps, personal documents, memoirs, scrapbooks
Date: 1760-1930
Held by: Hampshire Archives and Local Studies, not available at The National Archives
One such is:
170A12W/D/4215
Title The Tower Hamlets Rifles: A Short History
Date 1985
Description Typed document by Tom Craze
Admin history RB
Also 170A12W/D/0871 REGARDING Bandmasters
Walter might also have been in the same brigade though on the R.E. SIDE.
I do not live in UK and so unable to visit and find their charges out of my reach.
Best
John1935