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From: "Larry Button" <>
Subject: Re: [WARBRIDES] The Half-Million
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 16:30:45 -0500
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Joyce & David:

While the Air Base at Warrington may have been a U.S. installation I have
some documentation indicating that Warrington was associated with the RCAF /
RAF as well.

I have my late father's [WO2 Thomas BUTTON] "Pilot's Flying Log Book." He
served in the RCAF. On the second to last page "Record of Service" there is
the following chronology:

> RCAF R Depot Warrington - 25/5/45 - 6/6/45
> RCAF R Depot Torquay - 6/6/45 - 6/7/45
> then...Ile de France, Lachine P.Q. and #3 Release Centre Rockcliffe

In addition I also have the "Permission to Marry" for my parents [my mother
LACW Margaret Mitchell ELLIOTT was in the RAF] which is signed at RCAF "R"
Depot, Houghton Green, Warrington, Lancs.

Larry Button (Dundas, Canada)

P.S. It was my pleasure to accompany my mum and several other war brides to
the Provincial Legislature when 2006 was declared "Year of the War Bride"
here in Ontario. However one of the politicians speaking at the event put
his foot in it when he spoke of the war brides accompanying their Canadian
husbands to Canada. My parents were married in Stranraer, Scotland in June
1945. By July my dad was on a ship back to Canada. Alone. My mum didn't come
to Canada until April 1946. As I understand it this was the rule rather than
the exception.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joyce Vonstrahl" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 4:07 PM
Subject: Re: [WARBRIDES] The Half-Million


> Hello David,
> The Air Base at Warrington was a United States installation, Good Luck.
> Joyce
>
> On 12/27/06, DAVID williams <> wrote:
>>
>> Hello all
>> I have just finished reading the book "The Half-Million". It was a very
>> good read and extremely interesting. In my naivety I hoped to find
>> something specific about individual Canadian Servicemen in the UK during
>> WWII, but I didn't. Having extracted from the GRO Indexes all the
>> marriages
>> in Lancashire and Cheshire with the name of my mother's cousin from 1939
>> to
>> 1947, I have been trying to find who she married. It's like looking for
>> a
>> "needle in a haystack". There were 84 marriages in all. I have managed
>> to
>> get that down to 20 possibles.
>> In the book there was mention of a RCN base at Warrington and I thought
>> well at least I can follow up on the Warrington marriages. When I looked
>> at
>> my list, there are none. there were apparently no Army personnel
>> "north
>> of Watford". so, I guess he must have been RAF or RCAF. Oh well, it's
>> "back to square one".
>> Despite the disappointment, the book was well worth reading and for those
>> who haven't read it, you should try to get hold of it. Particularly,
>> those
>> of us this "side of the water" (in the UK).
>> All the best and a happy and prosperous New Year to you all.
>> David W in Essex
>>
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