Canadian Red Cross Escort Officers Overseas who worked with the Canadian War Brides of World War Two bringing them to Canada on the War Bride ships

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Click image for larger view. E/O Esther Whittaker, E/O Vernetta Grasswick, Captain LeBlanc of the Lady Rodney, and E/O Helen Black, on board the Lady Rodney en route from Southampton to Halifax, July, 1946. Photo courtesy of Leah Halsall.

Click image for larger view. "Last Escort Trip - Four VADS of the Red Cross Nursing Division who are the last to do escort duty on the transports coming from overseas arrived in the city yesterday on board the SS Aquitania."

Click image for larger view. E/Os Hilda Auld, Beatrice Proud, Mrs. Ada O'Neill, and Leah Halsall on board the Scythia en route from Liverpool to Halifax, October 4, 1946.

Click here for larger image. EO's line up on the stairwell. Many in this picture remain unidentified.

What follows is a list of individual Canadian Red Cross Escort Officers who worked with the War Brides between 1944 and 1947. Because the Escort Officers represented every province in the Dominion, the women's names appear in order of the city and province they came from, starting in the East and moving across the country to Western Canada. (Source: Kay Ruddick's Red Cross Escort Officer Overseas Diary, 1946.)

Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia

Ella MacLeod

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Jeane Doane
Pat Keen
Mrs.Postyn
May Feetham
Helen Black
Pippa Stevens
Mary Sellers
Mrs. Moorehouse
Mrs. O'Neil
Mrs. Goodeve

Truro, Nova Scotia

Mrs. White
Mrs. MacDougall

Moncton, New Brunswick

Marjorie Holder
Anne Freestone
Marian Robb
Kay Douglass

Saint John, New Brunswick

Elva Ferris

Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island

Eva Roper
Ethel Sutherland

Quebec City, Quebec

Colette Gagnon
Jeannette Ouelett

Montreal, Quebec

Mrs. Secord
Helen Gill
Betty Kirkwood
Rose Mary Kirkwood
Isabel Hulme
Merle Patch
Mrs. Haller

Toronto, Ontario

Lada Grath
Mercia Norris
Bunny Craig
Mary Elliot
Jean Gilmore

Ottawa, Ontario

Leah Halsall
Marie Brule

Windsor, Ontario

Mrs. Sheppard

London, Ontario

Helen MacLeod
Margaret Ramsden
Lillian MacKenzie

Hamilton, Ontario

Margaret Page
Mary Forrest

Winnipeg, Manitoba

Mrs. "Buster" Latter
Mrs. Jean Anderson
Mrs. Florence Chase
Mrs. Wood

Regina, Saskatchewan

Doris Blore
Joan MacArthur
Helen Drope
Eleanor Dennison
Mrs. Sidaway

Calgary, Alberta

Netta Grasswick

Edmonton, Alberta

Milly Zeigler
Doris Lucia

Vancouver, British Columbia

Esther Whittaker
Edna Hayward
Beatrice Proud
Mrs. Douglas
Mrs. Harker
Mrs. Partington
Helen Culver

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