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From: Stella Myers <>
Subject: [WarBrides] Re: WARBRIDES-D Digest V03 #108
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 16:42:43 -0400
In-Reply-To: <200307081006.h68A6mQC030314@lists2.rootsweb.com>


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> WARBRIDES-D DigestVolume 03 : Issue 108
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> Today's Topics:
> #1 Re: [WarBrides] War Brides from ot ["Joyce D.Welch"
> <>]
> #2 RE: [WarBrides] War Brides from ot ["Stephen Price"
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> #3 [WarBrides] Arrival [Ron Macintosh
> <>]
> #4 Re: [WarBrides] Medical []
> #5 Re: [WarBrides] Arrival ["Joan Reichardt"
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> #6 Re: [WarBrides] War Brides from ot ["Joan Reichardt"
> <]
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> Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 17:37:54 -0400
> From: "Joyce D.Welch" <>
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> Hi Tricia,
>
> Thank you for that long e-mail.
>
> I came over to Pier 2l May l945 (was on the Atlantic 3 days when
> Peace was
> declared!!! on the Athlone Castle. I have never found anyone else,
> that
> came on that ship at that time - but would love to hear from someone
> who
> did.. I married a Canadian in the Royal Canadian Artillery, and lived
> in
> North London, England.
>
> .
> I wish we could have a War Bride get together in Toronto, or
> Mississauga,
> where I live.-
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Joyce Welch
>
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> Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 15:49:05 -0600
> From: "Stephen Price" <>
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> Subject: RE: [WarBrides] War Brides from other countries
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> Dear Tricia,
>
> Documented sources give a figure of 46,000 Japanese war brides
> arriving in
> America between 1945 and 1960. This number would be a minimum. Some
> estimates go as high as 70,000. I believe the number is about 50,000.
> I am
> one of those 50,000 American men who married Japanese war brides. But
> unfortunately, my wife died in 1969 in Long Beach, California. My
> memoir,
> Last Love Letter for a Japanese War Bride, will be released in April
> 2004.
> It will be the first such memoir to be published in the United States.
>
> It may be interesting to note that my American wife of many years has
> gone
> to Japan twice to meet with my Japanese in-laws. Indeed, my American
> wife
> assisted me in writing the story of my Japanese wife.
>
> Stephen
>
>
>> [Original Message]
>> From: <>
>> To: <>
>> Date: 7/6/03 4:56:48 PM
>> Subject: [WarBrides] War Brides from other countries
>>
>> I have only read stories from mostly English women who met and married
>> American and Canadian servicemen, one from Belgium, and one from
>> Holland.
> What
>> other countries did the women come from who married American and
>> Canadian
>> servicemen? Are there any on the list?
>>
>> I am also now familiar with the names of the ships that travelled to
> America
>> and Canada, from England. What ships travelled from other parts of
>> the
> World
>> to go to America and Canada?
>>
>> Also, what about those war brides who travelled to Australia and New
> Zealand,
>> are any of you on this list, watching in the background. Would love
>> to
> hear
>> your stories and where you travelled from and to, and the names of the
> ships.
>>
>> Tricia
>>
>>
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> Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 16:25:03 -0600
> From: Ron Macintosh <>
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> Sorry to be a nuisance ladies.
>
> My lady arrived in Calgary about two weeks after she received word
> that she was leaving from the Canadian authorities in London. She was
> met at Calgary railway station in January 1945 by her new in-laws.
> How would they have known about her arrival? Would the Red Cross or
> some such organisation have contacted them and told them of the time
> of arrival etc.
> I'm sure that it would have been impossible to get a letter mailed to
> Canada in such a short time. Her embarkation letter was dated 22 Dec
> 1944.
> Note: she sailed on the Mauretania.
> Ron McIntosh
>
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> Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 18:39:21 EDT
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> Subject: Re: [WarBrides] Medical
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> Hi Ron, Your question on medicals !! Most of the girls who married
> Americans
> went through Tidworth Camp. I'm sure they still remember the one they
> got. We
> stood around like a bunch of (put it politely) lost sheep. In nothing
> but our
> under pants. Very embarrassing. Can't say the nurses or doctors were
> very
> polite. There were still German POWs there whose job was to help some
> of the
> brides with children. First time we were given corn to eat. We were
> all telling
> them people did not eat corn. We fed that to animals. We soon learnt
> different.
> Rae Z
>
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> Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 16:19:29 -0700
> From: "Joan Reichardt" <>
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> Hello, Ron, Those who travelled during the war probably had the
> notification done by the Red Cross, especially if the men were not yet
> back
> in Canada. For those of us who came after the war it was up to us. I
> still
> have the telegrams I sent to my husband telling him I had got my
> sailing
> orders, then telling him I was on my way and lastly that I had landed
> in
> Halifax. Good luck with your research! Joan Reichardt
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ron Macintosh" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 3:25 PM
> Subject: [WarBrides] Arrival
>
>
>> Sorry to be a nuisance ladies.
>>
>> My lady arrived in Calgary about two weeks after she received word
>> that
> she was leaving from the Canadian authorities in London. She was met at
> Calgary railway station in January 1945 by her new in-laws.
>> How would they have known about her arrival? Would the Red Cross or
>> some
> such organisation have contacted them and told them of the time of
> arrival
> etc.
>> I'm sure that it would have been impossible to get a letter mailed to
> Canada in such a short time. Her embarkation letter was dated 22 Dec
> 1944.
>> Note: she sailed on the Mauretania.
>> Ron McIntosh
>>
>>
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> Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 16:34:24 -0700
> From: "Joan Reichardt" <>
> To:
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> Hi, Joyce, I have found three who came over on the Athlone Casle,
> listed in
> my Sask War Brides list. They are: Penny Kerwin, 407- 330 Plainsview
> Dr.
> Regina, Sask. S4S 6Z8, she came in May of '45 from London
> Beryl Brown, Box 455, Shellbrook, Sask.S0J 2E0, she also came in May
> '45
> from Banbury
> Doris Hyland, Box 158 Bow Island, Alberta, T0K 0G0, no date with her,
> she
> came from Walton, Surrey. The list is a couple of years old but
> hopefully
> they are still alive and kicking!
> Good luck Joan Reichardt.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joyce D.Welch" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 2:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [WarBrides] War Brides from other countries
>
>
>> Hi Tricia,
>>
>> Thank you for that long e-mail.
>>
>> I came over to Pier 2l May l945 (was on the Atlantic 3 days when
>> Peace
> was
>> declared!!! on the Athlone Castle. I have never found anyone else,
>> that
>> came on that ship at that time - but would love to hear from someone
>> who
>> did.. I married a Canadian in the Royal Canadian Artillery, and
>> lived in
>> North London, England.
>>
>> .
>> I wish we could have a War Bride get together in Toronto, or
>> Mississauga,
>> where I live.-
>>
>> Thanks again,
>>
>> Joyce Welch
>>
>>
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