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Cpl. Royden Whittaker Barrett
British Army 396 Company Royal Army Service Corps
from:Staffordshire
Royden Whittaker Barrett was my father. He served in the British Army from 1940 to 1945. He was sent to North Africa in July 1942, sailing via Cape Town. He spent 14 months there before moving into Italy, where he remained for over 2 years.
I have his diary and he had a good friend called Mac. It is very clear that letters from home were very important and he got very disheartened when he didn't hear from my mother for a couple of weeks. Roy died in 1994 at the age of 80 and my mother died in 2003.