Getting to go Overseas

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Getting to go Overseas

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I used to go down to the administration office everyday and ask them if I could go overseas, and I think they got tired of hearing me so they, finally they sent me. I was home on leave when I got a telegram saying that I was posted to Halifax so I knew I was going overseas so. So um... I had to go and get a medical and, and uh... and then report back to Calgary and... and I missed out on half my leave. You had to go through all this, go to every, every section on the station and get cleared that you didn’t have anything that belonged to them, and then I started on the train trip back to Halifax. They had a ferry then to go from, across the Bay of Fundy, and I, I was seasick, and I thought “Gee, I still have the whole Atlantic Ocean to go across yet.”

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Mrs. Cawston speaks about her eagerness to serve overseas and the process involved to get there.

Sue Cawston

Mrs. Sue Cawston was born February 19, 1923 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Spending her younger years in Vancouver, Sue always had a keen sense of adventure to join the military. Her father served in WWI. Sue became a member of the Women’s Division, Royal Canadian Air Force. In Canada service in the administrative field was where she began her military career but because of her desire to go overseas she continued to request this provision and was soon granted permission to go. Sue worked and lived in London, England in the administrative office doing various office duties. After 2 years, 9 months of service Mrs. Cawston was discharged and returned to Canada. Mrs. Cawston settled back to Vancouver and raised a family.

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