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Roger Whittaker, singer of The Last Farewell, Durham Town and other easy-listening hits – obituary

As a boarder at Nairobi School, then known as Prince of Wales, he sang in the choir and during the Mau Mau uprising patrolled the grounds at night armed with a rifle. But it was Army life that proved transformative. “Before I did National Service in the Kenya Regiment I was stupid, selfish and angry,” Whittaker recalled. “The Army made a man out of me.”Encouraged by his parents he studied […]

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