Mary cornish city of benares envelopes

October 22, 2009

Sir;

My family were living in England during the war having come from Canada in 1936 and of course unable to leave the country when war broke out.

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I had 2 brothers join the Royal Navy, 1 brother joined the army and was
captured at Dunkirk serving 5 years as a POW, and my sister in the WAAF's. Probably the only Canadian family
in England with kin serving in the three forces. 

At 11 yrs, and my sister, 7 yrs, received a telegram from Canada House in London advising us to embark the
City of Benares in Liverpool on Sep.

13, 1940, fortunately for us the telegram was days late in arrival due to severe air-raids and we missed her sailing. On Sep.17. Benares was sunk 600 miles from the Irish coast with a terrible loss of life, including 77 of 90 evacuee children heading for safety in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

As a result our family returned to Canada intact after the war.

As a postcript I will never forget being in London on VE Day, May 8,