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BASIC TRAINING - 1940 ROYAL SIGNALS: The Love Letters of Private Roy Barton
‘A unique record of service life in World War 2.’ 'A wartime love story like no other.'
Recently found is Roy Barton's hoard of 250 love letters he wrote to his wife during World War 2. In 1940, during thirty-five days of army Basic Training with the Royal Signals in Yorkshire, Roy Barton wrote long letters to his young wife Phyllis at home in Somerset. A gifted writer with a fluid style and eye for detail, Roy shows us the army's demands and routines of each day, the characters of his fellow conscripts, the friendliness of the Yorkshire people, the Yorkshire Dales’ towns and his own doubts about his worthiness to become an army officer. Written to his wife with love, warmth and humour this is a unique record of one man’s Basic Training to mould him into a fighting man in the British Army.
The full hoard of 250 letters can also be found on KINDLE under the title 'DEAREST PHYL - LETTERS of LOVE and WAR'.
This book of Roy's wartime letters include photos and documents from his Basic Training in Yorkshire to his time in Normandy and Northern France as he travelled with General Montgomery’s HQ through war torn Belgium and into Germany. Roy’s love letters to Phyllis also describe the demands of each day, the destruction of German tanks and armour at Falaise, the French peasant farmers, Belgian black marketeers, leave in Paris and Brussels, the characters and gossip from his mess as well as their hopes for a ‘cottage in the country’ and plans for a baby at the war’s end.
Over 90,000 words - an amazing wartime testimony of a conscript in love and war - to be found in 'Dearest Phyl - Letters of Love and War'.
Recently found is Roy Barton's hoard of 250 love letters he wrote to his wife during World War 2. In 1940, during thirty-five days of army Basic Training with the Royal Signals in Yorkshire, Roy Barton wrote long letters to his young wife Phyllis at home in Somerset. A gifted writer with a fluid style and eye for detail, Roy shows us the army's demands and routines of each day, the characters of his fellow conscripts, the friendliness of the Yorkshire people, the Yorkshire Dales’ towns and his own doubts about his worthiness to become an army officer. Written to his wife with love, warmth and humour this is a unique record of one man’s Basic Training to mould him into a fighting man in the British Army.
The full hoard of 250 letters can also be found on KINDLE under the title 'DEAREST PHYL - LETTERS of LOVE and WAR'.
This book of Roy's wartime letters include photos and documents from his Basic Training in Yorkshire to his time in Normandy and Northern France as he travelled with General Montgomery’s HQ through war torn Belgium and into Germany. Roy’s love letters to Phyllis also describe the demands of each day, the destruction of German tanks and armour at Falaise, the French peasant farmers, Belgian black marketeers, leave in Paris and Brussels, the characters and gossip from his mess as well as their hopes for a ‘cottage in the country’ and plans for a baby at the war’s end.
Over 90,000 words - an amazing wartime testimony of a conscript in love and war - to be found in 'Dearest Phyl - Letters of Love and War'.
56 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 21, 2023
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