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252348 Irene Brooks Womens Land Army from:Middlesex I first met the beautiful Woman's Land Army uniformed Miss Irene Brooks,then of Brook Drive, Harrow, Middlesex in mid-1942, when we were both aged 17, having both been born in 1925, she on the 28th July,and me on the 7th November 1925. In 1942 I was a Private Canadian infantry soldier, a member of the 1st Battalion Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders Pipe-Band, stationed in the Marine Hotel at Selsey Bill, Sussex with the Glengarrian's C & D Companies while awaiting the expected invasion of the Nazi Germans from across the English Channel. One lovely weekend I noticed a young lady, who was on leave, and somehow she had managed to seat herself on top of one of the two huge concrete anti-tank blocks at the end of the roadway that reached the beach water of the channel. Miss Brooks explained that she just wanted to enjoy the scenery while "...looking out to sea..." even if it was a forbidden area. Miss Brooks and I became friends from then until 6th June 1944 (D- Day) and I never saw her again until August of 1945 when I was in the process of returning to Canada to become a post-war veteran aged 19. However, by then my dear fiend, Irene, was now Mrs F.W. Wright, a mother whose husband was a former RAF officer, their baby girl was born in December of 1944. That lovely child was named Jacqueline Yvonne, but her beautiful mother, later became Mrs. Swann, who died at age 50 in 1975, in the State of New York. By then the pretty Jackie Wright had become Mrs James Stewart of Rochester N.Y. and she is now a widow with her own children, to be aged 93 by 7th November 2018. Donn Add to this record.  Related Content: Womens Land Army Can you help us to add to our records? Add a record to our website. The names and stories on this website have been submitted by their relatives and friends. If your relations are not listed please add their names so that others can read about them Did you or your relatives live through the Second World War? Do you have any photos, newspaper clippings, postcards or letters from that period? Have you researched the names on your local or war memorial? Were you or your relative evacuated? Did an air raid affect your area? If so please let us know. Help us to build a database of information on those who served both at home and abroad so that future generations may learn of their sacrifice. Contact us. Celebrate your own Family History Celebrate by honouring members of your family who served in the Secomd World War both in the forces and at home. We love to hear about the soldiers, but also remember the many who served in support roles, nurses, doctors, land army, muntions workers etc. Please use our Family History resources to find out more about your relatives. Then please send in a short article, with a photo if possible, so that they can be remembered on these pages.

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