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From: "Elizabeth Angela Guyver" <>
Subject: Re: [WarBrides] Cornish town of Bodmin
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 00:34:31 +0100
References: <20051009163045.88324.qmail@web30905.mail.mud.yahoo.com>


Talking to my Mother this morning as we come from only 15 miles away - that
it couldn't have been that many women as Bodmin was a very small town at
that time. Only with a population of a max of 2000.

I would love to know the real story - waiting with baited breathe so to
speak

Beth
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From: "Michele" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2005 5:30 PM
Subject: RE: [WarBrides] Cornish town of Bodmin


> Susan, Bob Tyson told me about this and his is researching this time. I
> would really like to learn more. For me it is hard to believe that they
> would be shipped to a small village in the US. Why would they do
> something like that?
>
> Michele
>
> Susan Willis <> wrote:
> I have a friend based in Bodmin, Cornwall who is a reporter for the
> Cornish
> Guardian newspaper. He is always keen on covering stories with a WWII
> interest, so if I can help via him, please let me know and I'll be glad to
> ask him. He knows a great deal of the local history and stories and also
> knows many of the Cornish veterans, so I am quite sure he may be of some
> help.
>
> Regards,
> Susan Willis
>
>
>>From: Michele
>>Reply-To:
>>To:
>>Subject: [WarBrides] Cornish town of Bodmin
>>Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2005 19:25:33 -0700 (PDT)
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>>Around the time WW2 ended a number of women living in the Cornish town of
>>Bodmin who had been going out with American soldiers - including a number
>>of women who had children by soldiers - were shipped out to an isolated
>>village in one of the southern States.
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>>The American soldiers involved were likely to have come from the 29th
>>Infantry (The Blues and Greys) which is a southern based unit..
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>>I am trying to locate the village and find out what happened to them. Does
>>anyone in the group know anything about this village?
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