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- 1. a woman who marries a man whom she met while he was on active service.
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War bride. Australian Flying Officer reunites in Sydney with Canadian bride and daughter in 1945. War brides are women who married military personnel from other countries in times of war or during military occupations, a practice that occurred in great frequency during World War I and World War II. Allied servicemen married many women in other ...
- War Brides of The First World War
- War Brides of The Second World War
- Joyce (Gawn) Crane, Leading Aircraft Woman and War Bride
During the First World War, approximately 424,000 Canadians served overseas as part of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. By the end of the war, thousands of their dependents were living in Britain and Europe. Many of these dependents were Canadian wives (and children) who had travelled to Britain to be near their husbands. However, thousands of sol...
More than one million Canadians and Newfoundlanders served in the armed forces during the Second World War. As in the previous war, many Canadian servicemen married women they met overseas. By the end of 1946, there had been 47,783 marriages between Canadian servicemen and women from other countries (mostly European); these unions produced 21,950 c...
During the Second World War, Joyce Gawn served in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force in England. While on leave, she met Bruce Crane, a soldier in the Canadian army. They married on 6 January 1945. The following year, Joyce and her infant son travelled to Canada to reunite with her husband.
The term "war bride" refers to the estimated 48,000 young women who met and married Canadian servicemen during the Second World War. These war brides were mostly from Britain, but a few thousand were also from other areas of Europe: the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Italy and Germany. War brides also came to Canada after the First World War.
Oct 18, 2013 · A war bride and child arrive at Bonaventure Station in Montreal, Quebec, on 4 March 1946. The mother and child had travelled across the ocean on board the SS Aquitania. (courtesy Library and Archives Canada) In July 1940, English teenager June Watkins met the young Canadian soldier who would become her husband.
Blackouts to Bright Lights: Canadian War Bride Stories by Barbara Ladouceur and Phyllis Spence Brass Buttons and Silver Horseshoes: Stories from Canada's War Brides by Linda Granfield External Migration: A Study of the Available Statistics 1815–1950 by N.H. Carrier and J.R. Jeffery
Nov 11, 2019 · The granddaughter of a First World War bride is urging families to share the stories of the women who followed soldiers back to Canada 100 years ago.
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Nov 6, 2019 · TORONTO – Shortly after the end of the Second World War, tens of thousands of women made their way to Canada to begin new lives. An estimated 48,000 women moved here as war brides after marrying ...
