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From: Melynda Jarratt <>
Subject: Re: [WarBrides] Empire Brent [Letitia] Sailed December 4, 46 fromLiverpool
Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 08:00:57 -0300
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Hi Joan, thank you so much for this information. I would indeed, appreciate
any additional contact information. Rather than giving their personal
telephone numbers over the list, you may write to me with that information
at:


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> From: "Joan Reichardt" <>
> Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 12:47:50 -0700
> To: <>, <>
> Subject: Re: [WarBrides] Empire Brent [Letitia] Sailed December 4, 46 from
> Liverpool
>
> Hi, Melynda, I have a name on my Sask War Brides membership list: Sylvia
> Wilkes, 795 Pepin Place,Victoria, B.C.V8Z 6P3. She came on the Empire
> Brent, and shows a December arrival date. Although she now lives in Victoria
> she probably came first to Saskatchewan (as I did). I also have an address
> for a War Bride living (we hope) in Nipawin, Sask. which is close to Carrot
> River: Dorothy Cox, Box 1707, Nipawin, Sask.,S0E1E0. She might well know
> the story, as these are both small places and the war brides tended to know
> each other. When I look through this list I am struck yet again with the
> contrast of where we came from and where we went to! I was lucky, I went
> from a London suburb to Saskatoon, which even then, was a fair size, but
> some of the little prairie towns must have been a real shock. Last year, at
> the Sask.Reunion my youngest daughter (who went with me) was chatting to an
> attractive, well dressed lady at our table. She went from Sussex to a farm
> in the middle of nowhere and had no plumbing or running water for 30 years!
> My daughter's comment "He must have been one hell of a guy!!" Now a widow,
> the lady still lives there. I will ask my daughter, in Victoria, to see if
> there is a phone listed for Sylvia, just on the off chance she might have
> email. Good luck! Joan Reichardt.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Melynda Jarratt" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 11:22 AM
> Subject: [WarBrides] Empire Brent [Letitia] Sailed December 4, 46 from
> Liverpool
>
>
>> Did any war brides on this list sail from Liverpool on the Empire Brent
> [Letitia]
>> on December 4, 1946, arriving in Halifax, December 13, 1946?
>>
>> Looking for someone who remembers two unaccompanied minors [girls aged
> approx.
>> 5 and 3] who were headed to Carrot River Saskatchewan to meet their
> father,
>> [mother deceased]. They would likely have been accompanied by a Red Cross
> Escort
>> Officer, or may have been assigned a room with a war bride who did not
> have
>> any children.
>>
>> Any assistance appreciated.
>>
>> Melynda Jarratt
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