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From: "Debbie Beavis" <>
Subject: RE: [WarBrides] Warbride - request for help
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 21:52:09 +1000
In-Reply-To: <20060817.043656.4392.708322@webmail38.lax.untd.com>


Hi Pam

Unfortunately this person's father wasn't still in the army when he married
her mother, as he was discharged by the time the Dutch wife arrived in
Canada according to the passenger list. Is it your understanding that our
enquirer can't therefore apply for her father's army record because he was
discharged from the army before he married her mother, or is it just that
they won't provide the information about the Dutch first wife? Luckily the
passenger list does give his rank and army service number.

Debbie Beavis
Warbrides

> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: Re: [WarBrides] Warbride - request for help
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>
> Hello,
> If your Father was still in the Canadian Army when he married
> your Mother, which I assume he was, you can apply to the Canadian
> Army Records Center at Ottawa for ALL his Army records, which should
> contain information on the lady he married. As long as he has been
> dead for 20 years or more, any close family member can apply for a
> copy of all his military records, his have been avaiable since 2004.
> If you don't ask for ALL his records they will only give you the part
> you request. When you contact them identify yourself as his daughter
> and give your Father's name and date of birth, also regiment and army
> number if you have it.
> Applied for my husband's records in July 2005, he had died in July
> 1985, we waited 3 months for them to arrive, they are not known for
> their speed, but they will come. When I applied I sent my request by
> registered mail that way I had a record that they had received it,
> but if he was married when he was in the army, that will definitely
> be in his records.
> Was amazed with the things I found in his records that I had no
> idea about, very interesting !! If I had known some of the things I
> may not have married him, LOL !!

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