War bride

War bride

War bride is a term used in reference to wartime marriages, especially - but not exclusively - during World War I and World War II.

Wartime marriages occur in all places where serviceman find themselves. For example, according to The Daily Telegraph, it is estimated that there are "... 15,000 Australian women who married American servicemen based Down Under during World War II and moved to the US to be with their husbands" [cite news |first= Peter|last= Mitchell|authorlink= |coauthors= |title= Aussie brides reunite|url= http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,21623761-5001028,00.html|work= |publisher= The Daily Telegraph (Australia)|date= 2007-04-26|accessdate=2008-04-06 ] .

Allied servicemen also married many women in other countries where they were stationed at the end of the war, including France, Germany, Philippines, and Japan. This also occurred in Korea and Vietnam with the later wars in those countries involving U.S. troops.

As many as 100,000 GI war brides came from the United Kingdom, 150,000 to 200,000 hailed from continental Europe, 15,500 from Australia and 1,500 from New Zealand, between the years 1942 and 1952. [http://www.americainwwii.com/stories/warbrides.htm] Of these, approximately 44,000 went to Canada accompanied by some 22,000 children. They emigrated mainly in 1946 in specially commissioned "warbride ships," like the Queen Mary, Leticia, or Mauretania, landing at Pier 21 in Halifax. [cite web| url=http://archives.cbc.ca/war_conflict/second_world_war/topics/1542/|title=CBC coverage of warbrides - Love and War|publisher=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|accessdate=2008-05-13] A warbride museum is currently located on that site at Pier 21. [cite web| url=http://www.pier21.ca/ |title=Pier 21 Museum|publisher=Pier 21|accessdate=2008-05-13]

In 2008 the Royal British Columbia Museum in Victoria, B.C., Canada, has as its major exhibit paintings by Calgary artist Bev Tosh. [cite web| url=http://www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca|title=Royal BC Museum|accessdate=2008-05-13] The exhibit chronicles the warbride experience in Canada and New Zealand via a painting medium.

References

* "Love & War: stories of war brides from the Great War to Vietnam" by Carol Fallows (ISBN 1863252673)
* "Michi's memories: the story of a Japanese war bride" by Keiko Tamura (ISBN 1740760018)

ee also

Eswyn Lyster's Wikipedia page

External links

* [http://www.warbrides.com.au/home/ "Australian War Brides" website]
* [http://www.canadianwarbrides.com/ "Canadian War Brides of WW II" website]
* [http://www.nlwarbrides.ca/ "Newfoundland & Labrador War Brides" website]
* [http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?source=history/secondwar/warbrides "Canadian War Brides" from Veterans' Affairs Canada website]
* [http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-71-1542/conflict_war/war_brides/ CBC Digital Archives – "Love and War: Canadian War Brides"]
* [http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/war/us-forces-in-new-zealand/yankee-boys-kiwi-girls "Yankee boys, Kiwi girls" history webpage]
* [http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-WH2Prob-c15-7.html "Marriages" from "Problems of the 2NZEF" (eText of Official History of New Zealand in WW II)]
* [http://library.christchurch.org.nz/Heritage/Photos/disc7/IMG0031.asp New Zealand servicemen and their war brides, 1946 (photo)]
* [http://pages.istar.ca/~lyster/warbride Eswyn Lyster's Canadian War Bride page] - the book "Most Excellent Citizens"
* [http://bulletin.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=261776 War brides of World War II reunion 2007]


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