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Links Eswyn Lyster's Canadian War Brides The American Warbrides Experience War Bride Commemorative Certificates
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Wartime Britain was host to tens of thousands of allied servicemen - lonely and far from home. Many of the young women living around the military camps were swept off their feet by the young visitors - romance blossomed and marriages were hastily arranged before the new husbands were posted away to war. Some brides were given berths on war-time troop transports and sailed through treacherous seas to their new lives, but most women had to wait for the end of hostilities. As the war ended and the repatriation of allied forces got underway, the tens of thousands of brides left behind in Britain began frustrating months of waiting for transportation to join their husbands overseas. More than one hundred thousand British war brides and large numbers of children sailed away, mostly bound for Canada, the United States, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Large groups of European women were also transported through Britain and their numbers swell the total departure figures. Name indexes to War Bride passenger lists for ships bound for Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand in 1946 and 1947 are available online. The latest update to the database also includes thousands of warbrides travelling from Australia to the United Kingdom. More names will be added regularly. We may hold information on a name not yet uploaded. Please ask should your search reveal no result.
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