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Roy
Watkins
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These
photo's were sent in by Mr Roy Watkins from Southsea, Portsmouth.
Roy has lived in Bangor now for over twenty years and has
made it his home. Roy joined the army at 14 years of age in
1936. A
Home
7588605.
Royal Ordinance Corr. Roy Watkins. A New unit R.E.M.E. was
formed October 1st 1942.
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Some
of the places that Roy's tour of duty took him:
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Freetown
( Sierra Leone)/ Capetown/ Bombay/Columbo ( Ceylon now
Srilanka/ Kandy/Trincomalee/Suez/Ismailia/Port Said?Cairo/Alexandria/El
Alamein/ Tobruk/ Deana/ Benghazi/ Gaza/ Bethlehem/ Jerusalem/
Tel Aviv/ Ram Allah/ Netanya/ Haifa/ Sea of Galilee/ Toulon/
Paris/ Dieppe.
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Hook
of Holland (Delft) Rotterdam/Cologne/Stuttgart/Munich/Salzberg
(Austria) / Villach/ Udine ( Italy)/ Treviso/ Mestre/
Venice/ Padua/ Bologna/ Florence/ Rimini/ Trieste/ Cortina
( Italian Alps)/
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Gibralter/Valletta
(Malta)/ Suez/Columbo/Hong Kong / Pusan ( South Korea)
Taegu/ Taejon/ Inchon/ Sedui/ Pyong Yang ( N.Korea) Wonsan/
Tokyo/ Mount Fuji/ Kure/ Return home by ship calling at
Hong Kong, Colombo, Suez, Southampton.
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