The pride in Blanche Bennett’s voice was evident as she vividly recounted the day 80 years ago when she volunteered to serve in the Canadian Women’s Army Corps.
Bennett, who turns 100 on Nov. 12, was just 19 when she signed up in 1942 to become one of the nearly 46,000 women who served their country in the military during the Second World War. She said in a recent interview that she immediately went home and informed her surprised mother of her plan.We deliver the local news you need in these turbulent times on weekdays at 3 p.m.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
Bennett said her pride in serving influenced her life following the war, and that is one of the reasons why she participated in the project. In their retirement years, the couple were active in Remembrance Week activities and often gave talks in Island schools. Bennett said the recognition she and other women have since received is gratifying if late in coming.
“I grew up with the results of his war experience, which were a broken family, a lack of a father most of the time and a very sad mother,” said Reid. “I realized that this project ⦠was really a more public version of what I had been trying to do on a personal level.”
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