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From: "Sonia Perry" <>
Subject: Re: [WarBrides] Re: WARBRIDES-D Digest V05 #20
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 15:12:57 -0700
References: <ECF081EE-72F0-11D9-BDBD-00306584AEFA@calhounsportswear.com>


My mother, Hilda Noel (nee Eggleton) was on that voyage.
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From: "Stella Myers" <>
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Subject: [WarBrides] Re: WARBRIDES-D Digest V05 #20


>I would be very interested in hearing from any War Bride who
> travelled to Canada on the Aquatania July 29, l946, As I did,
>
> Stella Myers
> On Friday, January 28, 2005, at 01:45 PM,
> wrote:
>
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>> WARBRIDES-D Digest Volume 05 : Issue 20
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>> Today's Topics:
>> #1 Jan 26 1946 ["jsstubbs"
>> <>]
>> #2 Bath night on the prairies 1946 []
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>> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 15:07:42 -0500
>> From: "jsstubbs" <>
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>> Subject: Jan 26 1946
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>> To all the Warbrides that left England aboard the
>> SS Argentina 59 years ago on January 26th 1946 we celebrate another
>> anniversary of our voyage.
>> It would have been great to hear from you throughout the years. I do
>> have contact with two other brides and a daughter of another bride but
>> of the other 400 plus brides and their descendants one can only wonder
>> what happened to them.
>> The brides that married Canadians keep in touch and it is so nice to
>> read their stories of how they overcome hardships in settling in their
>> home towns.
>> My blessing to each of you.
>> The SS Argentina became one of the ghost ships on the James River, in
>> Va. near where she was built in the 1920's and eventually was >
scrapped.
>> WWW.Moore-McCormack.com have a web site about the ship.
>> Sincerely, Joan Stubbs
>>
>> ______________________________X-Message: #2
>> Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 11:43:14 -0700
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>> Subject: Bath night on the prairies 1946
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>> Shortly after my arrival at my mother-in-law's house, where we lived
>> for
>> 6 months in one room, my husband said he would go and get a bathtub so
>> we could have a bath. Well, that gave me a bit of a jolt. How would you
>> go and get a bathtub? Weren't they upstairs somewhere in a bathroom? I
>> had not realized that there was no sewer and no plumbing to speak of. I
>> had been introduced to the outdoor toilet. but didn't dream that
>> bathing
>> would be a problem also.
>> He came back into the room carrying a metal tub about 2 ' square. I
>> immediately knew it would be an impossibility to sit in that. He warmed
>> the water on the stove, transferred it to the tub, stripped off and sat
>> down with one leg in and the other outside the wash tub. He scrubbed
>> his
>> upper body then the leg that was inside the tub. He then put it outside
>> the tub and the other one inside to wash it. It was quite a procedure.
>> After drying himself and dressing he carried the tub outside and dumped
>> the water on the ground. Then it was my turn. I was embarassed.
>> I had been sitting on the bed watching him with amazement. We had
>> never
>> seen each other naked, always turning off the lights and undressing
>> before clambering into bed. Now I was expected to have a bath in front
>> of him. How different from today where nudity is viewed so differently
>> and sex is such an unfettered procedure.
>> Oh yes, and about that sink in his mother's kitchen. I flooded the
>> floor
>> before finding out that there was only a bucket under it which had to
>> be
>> taken outside and emptied. :-[
>> .
>> We had a War Brides meeting yesterday with 16 out of 26 members
>> present.
>> During lunch (Crab Melt or Shepherd's Pie, rice pudding or Jello for
>> dessert) we discussed the phenomena of bathing in those metal tubs.
>> One'girl' said that they had a long tub so they could stretch their
>> legs
>> out. I thought of her husband struggling outside to empty that! We
>> decided she was a very privileged person, a plutocrat no less, and
>> laughed about it.
>> We also remembered that the soap fat coagulated on the tubs and in the
>> dishpans when we did the dishes. It was ugly goop. We loved detergents
>> when they finally came along.
>> Sometime, I will tell you about doing the washing.
>> On a sadder note: many of the elderly War Brides have walkers, canes,
>> crutches or wheel chairs to get around in. One husband who was there
>> last month to bring his wife to the meeting wasn't there this month -
>> another one gone. Yesterday there were only 2 husbands waiting for
>> their
>> War Bride wives to take them home after the meeting, mine and Irish
>> Mary's.
>> Someone mentioned that the War Brides have a 'spit in your eye
>> attitude'
>> . She is darned right - we have earned it.
>> Hazel in Alberta, Canada.
>> My writing is copyrighted These are excerpts from my (as yet)
>> unpublished book, but still my writing. Thanks!
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