Ruth Reid

Monday 1 March 2010 5:00AM

As a young woman, Ruth Reid was living and working in London during the Second World War. By day she worked in a bank; by night she contributed to 'the war effort' as a volunteer fire watcher. A weekend visit to Brighton on England's south coast changed Ruth's life dramatically: There she met and fell in love with Gordon Reid, a young Australian Air Force navigator. They married in 1945 shortly after the war in Europe ended, and early the following year Ruth set sail to join her new husband in Australia as a British War Bride -- a journey which eventually would lead her to Western Australia's Government House.


Annie Thomson
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