mbriscoe Posted 28 February , 2020 Share Posted 28 February , 2020 (edited) I was just searching newspapers.com for reports about US Navy Base Hospital No.2 and No.3 and saw this report. It caught my eye because of "Welsh Boy" (I had not realised there is a place called "Welsh". Joe Hebert met Miss Nora B. Campbell (described as an English girl attached to the WRAF). After a short courtship they got engaged but he was transferred to a hospital at "Eastliege, England". The marriage was postponed, he was embarked on the USS Patricia which was burnt and he lost all his personal effects including the address of Miss Campbell. She managed to track him down through the US Navy Dept. and they married on 5th February 1920 and were planning to live in Winnipeg where he had got a job. The Rice Belt Journal (Welsh, Louisiana) - 28 Feb 1920, Sat - Page 1 Edited 28 February , 2020 by mbriscoe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbriscoe Posted 28 February , 2020 Author Share Posted 28 February , 2020 Norah B Campbell was, as I suspected, Scottish and from Edinburgh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alf mcm Posted 28 February , 2020 Share Posted 28 February , 2020 This could be her family tree, and a photo. https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/person/tree/52222315/person/250113878879/facts?_phsrc=pEt3205&_phstart=successSource Regards, Alf McM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alf mcm Posted 28 February , 2020 Share Posted 28 February , 2020 Full name Norah Beulah Campbell, born Newington 1895. Birth certificate on Scotlandspeople. Regards, Alf McM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbriscoe Posted 28 February , 2020 Author Share Posted 28 February , 2020 I found the tree and extracted the information to a temporary one - I tend to keep ones like private because it gets embarrassing when someone contacts years later and I cannot remember who they were! I sent a message to a few people who appear to be related to ask if they have seen the newspaper story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marilyne Posted 28 February , 2020 Share Posted 28 February , 2020 And what's the end of the story??? Did they live "happily and ever after in Winnipeg"??? M. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbriscoe Posted 28 February , 2020 Author Share Posted 28 February , 2020 (edited) 33 minutes ago, Marilyne said: And what's the end of the story??? Did they live "happily and ever after in Winnipeg"??? M. He died in Welsh in 1948 and she died in 1968. A tree shows her death at Las Vegas but not been able to confirm that. They had a daughter who married in 1992. Though she is not listed as his contact on his WWII draft card. Edited 28 February , 2020 by mbriscoe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marilyne Posted 28 February , 2020 Share Posted 28 February , 2020 7 minutes ago, mbriscoe said: H. They had a daughter who married in 1992. That's late... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbriscoe Posted 28 February , 2020 Author Share Posted 28 February , 2020 1 minute ago, Marilyne said: That's late... OOoops, died in 1992 Not sure of Jo / Joseph's dates, a couple of trees could be wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alf mcm Posted 28 February , 2020 Share Posted 28 February , 2020 This is Norah's W.R.A.F. record. https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D7498248 It says her service started on 10th April 1917, so she had probably been in the Q.M.A.A.C. Her next of kin was a sister in Winnipeg. Regards, Alf McM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
royalredcross Posted 29 February , 2020 Share Posted 29 February , 2020 Norah Campbell did indeed serve in the QMAAC as Forewoman No. 53. She was on the staff of the Controller in Chief in France. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alf mcm Posted 29 February , 2020 Share Posted 29 February , 2020 With such a low number, she must have been one of the first women to join W.A.A.C/Q.M.A.A.C. Regards, Alf McM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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