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Private Errol Douglas George Britten

10630573 Royal Army Ordnance Corps, Army Catering Corps

His name under the Catering Corps - Singapore Memorial
Son of James & Sarah Jane Britten

Aged 28 years

Missing in Japanese POW camp 1942
Declared as died 20th January 1945

 Commemorated on Singapore Memorial
Column 111.
Also commemorated at Rushden Cemetery Memorial Inscription on Grave F.661/2 and in the memorial chapel at St Mary's Church where he was a chorister.

Evening Telegraph, 11th July 1944, transcribed by Kay Collins

Rushden Man is Jap Prisoner
Missing since the fall of Java, Pte. “Dick” Britten, of a Light Anti-Tank Regiment, is now known to be a prisoner of the Japs.

His father, Mr. J. Britten, baker, of Grove-road, Rushden, was informed on Monday by a postcard which told him that his youngest son was in excellent health and sent love to all.

Pte. Britten is 28, and before joining the Army assisted his father in the bakery business. He went overseas early in 1941, and this has been the first news of him since he was officially reported missing.

'Dick' was a chorister

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