From Tour Guide to Husband

My father, Rex Gaywood, was Australian and served in the military during the war. He was injured and invalided back home. My mother, Gertrude Jean Palmer, was a British WREN sent over to Australia because of the war in the Pacific. She was a comptroller administrator. My parents met because there was an appeal for locals who were willing to show the ladies around the city. My father volunteered and was one of the people chosen, and he was her guide! My mother went home after the war, and my father would record himself singing onto RPMs and send them to her through the post. That's how they corresponded after the war. They eventually married in 1948.

Re: the knife [we know, we know, we only took photos because it wasn't very sharp and wasn't used in combat!!] - these were used by divers to cut nets and other ropes underneath ships and submarines. It was a German company, Siebe Gorman & Co., who manufactured them - some irony that both sides would be using knives made by the same people to sabotage each other.