Women and War
Women and War Love and Marriage Images
Love and marriage images.
A Date
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A woman worker for the Dominion Arsenals Ltd. munitions plant has a date with her boyfriend.
Photo: Harry Rowed / National Film Board of Canada. Library and Archives Canada / PA 112823War Poster
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That Priceless Boy of Yours.
Photo: Allan and Sharon KerrWar Brides
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Canadian soldiers - in training, on leave or in the hospital - fell in love. By war’s end, an estimated 15,000 Canadian war brides and children lived in the United Kingdom. Many of these families later came to Canada to build new lives.
Photo: Library and Archives Canada/PA-008179Wedding
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Molly Lamb Bobak (b. 1922). The first CWAC wedding to be held in Apeldoorn.
Photo: Beaverbrook Collection of War Art, Canadian War Museum 19710261 1653War Brides and Children
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Many Canadian personnel stationed overseas married women from the United Kingdom and Europe. The press dubbed the transport to Canada of 45,000 war brides and their 21,000 children Operation Daddy.
Photo: Canadian War Museum, Toronto City Archives Fonds 1266, Item 102055Letter
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Harold Brown describes Christmas on the front in this letter to his mother.
Photo: George Metcalf Archival Collection Canadian War Museum 19670065-156Mother and Kids
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The wife and children of a Canadian Forces aviation systems technician brace for his departure.
Photo: ISD02-6016 by Sgt Dennis J. Mah, DGPA/J5PA CombatCWAC
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Advertisement, Canadian Women's Army Corps.
Goodbye
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Preparing to leave for southwest Asia, avionics system technician Master Corporal Horst Hensel shares a few moments with his wife and children.
Photo: Sgt Dennis J. Mah, DGPA / J5PA Combat Camera ISD02-6023Saying Goodbye
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Private Jack Bernard, The British Columbia Regiment (Duke of Connaught’s Own) (RCAC) saying goodbye to his wife, Bernice, and his five year old son, Warren. New Westminster, B.C. 1940.
Photo: Claude P. Dettloff / Library and Archives Canada / C 038723War Poster
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I’ve Never Seen My Daddy.
Photo: Allan and and Sharon Kerr Collection HF-01-80Soldier
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Soldier with a baby.
Photo: Allan and Sharon Kerr Collection, HF-01-1897_detWar Poster
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Victory Bonds Poster.
Photo: Allan and Sharon Kerr Collection, HF-01-2016_detGreeting
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Master Corporal Laberge is greeted by her family at Jean Lesage International Airport in Québec City, Quebec, after returning from Operation Hestia in Haiti.
Photo: Cpl Roxanne Shewchuk Department of National DefenceHome at Last
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Painting by Mary Louise Leach and Wendy Trethewey.
Photo: Beaverbrook Collection of War Art, © Canadian War Museum 19960062-118Christmas Over There
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Christmas Over There! Canadian Women's Army Corp Second World War Poster.
Photo: Allan and Sharon Kerr Collection, HF-01-2132Star Weekly
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Star Weekly Cover (Aug 7, 1943).
Reunited
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Family being reunited.
Photo: Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC)Reunited
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Lt.-Col. H. Sajjan, Special Advisor to the Commander, TF 5-09 is re-united with wife, Kuljit and 15-month old daughter, Jeevut.
Photo: Department of National Defence, IMG_9544_LReunited
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Corporal Kevin Jean returning to Canada from Haiti.
Photo: Department of National DefenceStar Weekly
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Star Weekly Cover (Aug 18, 1945).
Pallbearers
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Pallbearers carry the casket of fallen soldier Colonel Geoff Parker from the CC-177 Globemaster aircraft to the awaiting hearse. Colonel Parker was killed during an explosion caused by a suicide bomber, who attacked a NATO convoy in Kabul.
Photo: Corporal Brandon O’Connell, Department of National Defence, TN2009-0773-04Telegram
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This telegram reports the death of Captain Thomas Whitmore of the Canadian Army Medical Corps. The date of death was inaccurate, as Whitmore was actually killed on 8 August 1918, the first day of the Battle of Amiens.
Photo: George Metcalf Archival Collection Canadian War Museum 20020024-008-1Flag
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Mrs Tina Beerenfenger receives the Canadian flag that was draped over the coffin of her husband, Cpl Robbie Beerenfenger.
Photo: Department of National Defence, PA2003-0231-068aMother
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Mother of Private Sébastien Courcy, Canada's 125th soldier killed in Afghanistan, receives the flag that draped her son's casket on his return to Canada.
Photo: Library and Archives Canada/National Gallery of Canada.Mother
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His Majesty King Edward VIII greeting Mrs. A. Woods at the unveiling of Canada's National Memorial at Vimy Ridge in 1936. Mrs. Woods lost 2 of her 12 sons in the First World War.
Mother
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This woman is likely the mother of Private Marin Cochet, who served with the 5th Battalion and died on 2 January 1919, age 28. The medal on the left is unidentified; the one on the right is a Memorial Cross, also known as a Silver Cross.
Photo: George Metcalf Archival Collection Canadian War Museum 20030362-007Nichola
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Captain Nichola Goddard (May 2, 1980 – May 17, 2006) was the first female Canadian combat soldier killed in combat. Her husband Jason Beam would be the first widower to receive the Memorial Cross.
Photo: Department of National Defence- Date modified: