201 To: Tech. B. E. Crowdy, RCN(T) You have been chosen to go through and inspect U-190, the German Submarine which surrendered to this command. 2. You are to arrive promptly on time at 1545, Monday afternoon, the 18th of June, at the Water Street gate of H.M.C. Dockyard. 3. Personnel are not permitted to take photographs in H.M.C. Dockyard, and you are warned not to bring cameras. A. A. Giffin), A/Surg. Captain, RCNVR. SENIOR MEDICAL OFFICER NEWFOUNDLAND COMMAND. According to the story I’ve been told, my father and mother first met at a navy dance in Halifax. Perhaps the dance took place while Dad was in training at HMCS Kings? Whatever the case, Mum and Dad must have kept in touch. After she left the navy in 1946, my mother travelled west with a friend from Montreal to Vancouver, where my father had returned after the war. There, Mum reunited with Dad. They had both lost brothers in the war: my Uncle Dacre Barrett-Lennard, who was killed in action in Italy while serving with the Seaforth Highlanders, and my Uncle Charles Crowdy, who was shot down over Belgium while piloting a Halifax with the RCA. For my parents, the sadness of the loss of their brothers was eased by the joy of their marriage in 1947. Walter Barrett-Lennard (1914-2002) & Betty Barrett-Lennard (1917-2011)
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