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SO WHAT DID YOUR PARENTS DO IN THE BIG WAR
"SHIVER ME TIMBERS" wrote in message
... Well after watching the Ken Burns series THE WAR ad naseum ad naseum, I thought I'd come into the group today with one of my curious questions. What did your parents, family, etc. do in the big WWII. Mine worked at the Canada Car foundry in what was then called Fort William, Ontario. They were inspectors helping to make Hawker Hurricanes and later other types of figthers including the Curtis Helldiver. How about your folks..... Dad was a Canadian in the RN operating radar. Mum was a student at Lisgar Collegiate Institute learning, among other things, to shoot in case push came to shove (the school had an indoor range on its fourth floor) and occasionally babysitting Adrienne Poy. Maternal grandfather was a sergeant in the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada, until he was hit by a truck in the blackout in England and crippled. His wife was a social worker in Ottawa, working with families who had lost loved ones or who were having them returned as wounded. Paternal grandfather ran the timber mechanics laboratory at Princes Risborough for the Royal Aircraft Establishment, and was the man who, before the war, proved the concept for the plywood construction of the Mosquito. His wife ran the household and prayed for a son running an oil refinery in Egypt, another leading a troop in the Royal Canadian Hussars, and for my dad in the RN (she was spared having to worry much about her daughter, whom they packed off back to Canada in 1939 to finish her schooling in Montréal). -- Andrew Chaplin SIT MIHI GLADIUS SICUT SANCTO MARTINO (If you're going to e-mail me, you'll have to get "yourfinger." out.) |
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