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Jan. 26, 1994 (Continued from page 11) Once at the dock in Halifax, Nan met up with a friend, Phyl Horsley, whose husband had trained with Nan‘s and was at the same station in England. Phyl was also pregnant but only about two months. They were taken out to their boat by a tender and had to climb aboard by using a rope ladder. The Bonaire was a tiny 3,000â€"ton banana boat which had been confiscatâ€" ed by the Dutch from the Germans at Curacao. But it was designated the flag ship of the 38â€"ship convoy, and had a British admiral and his six yeomen on board. The Bonaire‘s captain and crew were all Dutch. The boat was so small that the 10 passengers had to share one tiny bathroom. But that turned out to be the least of their worries. The convoy was delayed first by a fire on board one of the ships, and again by the same ship having run out of fuel. It was flying the Swedish flag and should have had no need to be in a convoy. Shortly after these strange delays, the convoy was spotted by a pack of ‘Germanâ€" submarines. Fortunately, their British escort group under command of the famous Captain F. J. Walker managed to sink six of the Uâ€"boats, and after picking up German survivors the convoy continued to zigâ€" zag its way across the Atlantic, going as far south as the Azores on March 14, 1944 â€" Gwen‘s 21st birthday. It was 17 days since they had left Halifax. The wives had been told that their husbands would be advised of their â€" arrival, but after waiting all day on the ;boat they realized that they had been misled. There were no husbands to ‘ meet them. They were taken by bus to Liverpool railway station and uncereâ€" i moniously dumped there with all their trunks and various pieces of luggage. The city was enveloped in the blackout and they had no idea what to do or where to go. Finally, a kindly British "bobby" helped them to find someâ€" where to store their baggage and took them to a hotel. They spent three frusâ€" trating days there trying to get in touch ‘ with their husbands. Finally, Tony received Gwen‘s message and he was first to arrive in Liverpool to rescue home in Derbyshire where Gwen was 'ber. They left the next day for his going to stay until Tony was finished his operational training course in Scotland. This is where Gwen‘s book begins to chronicle the adventures, some hilarious and some harrowing, of the three young Canadian wives as they â€" tried to cope with British wartime conâ€" ditions â€" German bombing, rationing, a very different social milieu than they were accustomed to, and the constant fear for the safety of their husbands. Gwen found it impossible to live ton banana bo THE OAKVILLE BEAVER 1 Sisters‘ adventure begins aboard 3,000â€" at confiscated by Dutch Gwendoline Pilkington with her first husband, RAF pilot Tony Adams in the living room of their Medicine Hat home, in 1941. Adams died overseas during World War II. with her very peculiar motherâ€"inâ€"law and, as soon as she could, she escaped and went to live with Nan and Phyl in Newmarket. There, in late May, her baby girl was born, in a house they managed to rent and with a midwife in attendance. Hospitals would not take obstetric cases because it was too close to Dâ€"Day and all beds would be needâ€" ed for expected casualties. She and the baby survived the ordeal but it was a week before her husband could wangle some leave to come and see them. He only had two more opportunities to come home before he was killed in July while on an operational sortie over the North Sea. Gwen was desolatâ€" ed, but she decided to remain in England to keep Nan company while her husband was on operations. Soon after this, they received notice from the landlady telling them to find somewhere else to live. They finally rented a 500â€"yearâ€"old restored pub, called Susan Plum. It was very isolated and had no electricity or telephone. However, they had no choice. It was all they could find and they had to have somewhere to live. CLUNG TO LIFE Meanwhile, PhyI‘s husband, Peter was shot down over the English Channel but he was lucky. A passing British warship spotted him and picked him up after he had spent 60 hours desperately clinging to his dinghy in the cold waters of the channel. His navigator was never found. Phyl was also lucky. By this time the panic over hospital beds was over and she was able to have her baby in a hospital in Newmarket. The wives remained at Susan Plum until the late fall after which Phyl moved away and Gwen and Nan decided they could not stay in this old spooky house alone in winter. They managed to find another home in Mayfield, Sussex, which had the disâ€" advantage of being in buzz bomb alley and being constantly peppered by the new German menace, the flying bomb. What was almost worse than the flying bombs, was the extremely odd landlaâ€" dy who harassed them until finally they had to move again. Meanwhile, Nan‘s husband, Ken, and his navigator Harry, had been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for their courageous attacks on German supply trains and ammunition depots. Harry and Gwen eventually became close friends and the more they saw of each other the fonder they became. Gwen claims he "fell in love with my baby daughter." Be that as it may, he helped in the move from Mayfield down to a house on the south coast where Nan and Gwen remained until the end of the European conflict on May, 1945. A year and a half later, Gwen and Harry were married, and in 1946 they returned to Canada, first going to Medicine Hat and later to Montreal where Harry got a job with Bell Canada. He retired from that company in 1983 as a viceâ€"president. While in Montreal, both Gwen and Harry attended evening classes at Sir George Williams University, Harry receiving a B.Sc. in Mathematics in 1953 and Gwen a B.A. in English in 1954. They eventually added another daughter and a son to their family. Between 23 moves, caused mainly by Harry‘s career, Gwen managed to earn an M.A. at McGill and a Ph.D. from the University.of Toronto, and taught at university until Harry retired. The book, Time Remembered, can be purchased for $14.95 from Quest Booksellers, Oakville; Fireside Books and Gifts, Bronte; A Different Drummer, Burlington; Coles in Trafalgar Village; the War Plane Heritage Museum in Mount Hope; Bryan Prince, Hamilton; Britnells, Edwards, Trillium Books, Toronto; and the Toronto Women‘s Bookstore in Toronto; or directly from the author in Oakville, 842â€"0692. 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