Volume Twelve - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - further aspects - The GI Bride of Cogan . . .

1944 - Frances and Roy

After the War :

I came over with the second shipload on the Queen Mary. We were in a camp at Tidworth near Southampton (Tidworth Camp was situated on Salisbury Plain) a week prior to sailing – we had health check-ups and a legal check-up. German Prisoners of War worked at the camp, cooking and cleaning.

1946 - R.M.S. Queen Mary - her role in 'Operation Diaper'.

The Penarth Times [101] reported on Thursday 31st January 1946 : -

                          Penarth's GI Brides to Sail in Queen Mary

Throughout the country British wives of Americans are leaving their homes to join their husbands in the USA, and on Monday morning two brides from Penarth left to take up their new lives in America. One was Mrs. Frances Spencer, third daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Edwards, of 5, Cawnpore Street, Cogan. Mrs. Spencer met her husband when her mother invited three Americans to spend Christmas Day 1943. . . . They were married the following October, and Mrs. Spencer was not able to join her husband until after he went to France on D-Day. Mrs. Spencer's new home will be at Yakima, Washington. . . . They hope to leave England on February 3rd in the Queen Mary.