patches Posted January 26, 2022 Share #1 Posted January 26, 2022 Eswyn Lister Engish was one of the first war brides to arrive in Canada, when she married Stu Lister of one of the Canadian Highland Regiments. Link to comment
patches Posted January 26, 2022 Author Share #2 Posted January 26, 2022 Unknown couple in Leeds. Link to comment
patches Posted January 26, 2022 Author Share #3 Posted January 26, 2022 Ernie and Joan Howe in Cambridge. Link to comment
patches Posted January 26, 2022 Author Share #4 Posted January 26, 2022 Another military couple, Harvey Maclean Jean Morley Royal Canadian Navy Link to comment
patches Posted January 26, 2022 Author Share #5 Posted January 26, 2022 An English bride named Doris married a Canadian Soldier who lost his leg, no other info. Link to comment
patches Posted January 26, 2022 Author Share #6 Posted January 26, 2022 Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire and Andrew Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire in 1941. Cavendish is in the 2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards, he sees action in North Africa and Italy. Link to comment
patches Posted January 26, 2022 Author Share #7 Posted January 26, 2022 Glen Elliot another Canadian in Scotland 1940 on his wedding day, bride named Cathie. Link to comment
patches Posted January 26, 2022 Author Share #8 Posted January 26, 2022 Pilot Officer Allen Dunlop Royal New Zealand Air Force with his British War Bride Claire. Link to comment
patches Posted January 26, 2022 Author Share #9 Posted January 26, 2022 Unknown British Service couple on the wedding day, groom is a Artilleryman. Link to comment
patches Posted January 26, 2022 Author Share #10 Posted January 26, 2022 Corporal Paul Dumaine was in 1942 engaged to a English girl named Joan, but Dumaine was in on the Dieppe Operation and was captured, here they are after the war back in England on their wedding day. Link to comment
patches Posted January 26, 2022 Author Share #11 Posted January 26, 2022 Do post ones you have or find here. Ta Ta Link to comment
patches Posted December 2, 2022 Author Share #12 Posted December 2, 2022 Here's one interestingly from the Korean War. A U.S. GI we see as a guest off to the right, probably in Japan. Link to comment
patches Posted December 4, 2022 Author Share #13 Posted December 4, 2022 Sergeant Harry Creagen with his bride Matsuko and son Michael on the front of the Toronto Daily Star after arriving at Union Station in Toronto in June 1955. The couple were married for 43 years before the veteran of two wars died in 1997. Link to comment
patches Posted December 11, 2022 Author Share #14 Posted December 11, 2022 Bill and Takako Watts married in 1949 .The Australian Watts, a Sergeant at the time, evidently a veteran of the Pacific War at least, not sure if he was in Africa or say Palestine or the Levant beforehand. Link to comment
patches Posted December 12, 2022 Author Share #15 Posted December 12, 2022 22 hours ago, patches said: Bill and Takako Watts married in 1949 .The Australian Watts, a Sergeant at the time, evidently a veteran of the Pacific War at least, not sure if he was in Africa or say Palestine or the Levant beforehand. Bill Watts and Takako had two children by the time they returned to Australia in 1953, they would have five more, a total of seven kids. Link to comment
patches Posted January 29 Author Share #17 Posted January 29 Canadian Ralph Lloyd and his English girlfriend Doris in a studio portrait taken before their wedding in December 1941. Lloyd is a Musican in The Carleton and York Regiment 1st Canadian Division. Link to comment
patches Posted February 3 Author Share #18 Posted February 3 A Rate gets married, Summer 1940. Link to comment
patches Posted February 28 Author Share #20 Posted February 28 Arthur and Margaret Houghton wedding day in 1945 in England, she's English, he is as we see Canadian. he was in the 7th Anti Tank Regiment, a Gunner, 7th Anti Tank Regiment was a Canadian I Corps Troop Unit. Link to comment
patches Posted March 11 Author Share #21 Posted March 11 Cecil Nixon and Ida married in May 1944 in North London. Cecil was an electrical engineer officer in the Royal Navy Link to comment
patches Posted March 22 Author Share #22 Posted March 22 The wedding of Captain Leonard Johnson of the 4th Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery and his new wife Josephine de Vries at the Pepergasthuis Church in Groningen, Netherlands. June 30, 1945 Link to comment
patches Posted April 1 Author Share #23 Posted April 1 Australians, Dennis and Margaret Davis wedding day in 1943, He was in the 9th Division Africa and New Guinea. Link to comment
patches Posted May 13 Author Share #25 Posted May 13 Canadian Mickey Heller Bomber crewman in 1944 married back in Canada. Link to comment
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