Alice Edith Lynde

Alice Edith Lynde Alice Rose and Walter Lucus Lynde’s eldest daughter, born 28.10.1887, possessed a wonderful sense of humour, great determination and courage all her life. She was a gifted pianist passing all her Trinity College exams. In 1912 she became engaged to Horace Arnold (born 14.8.1889). He worked in the Canadian Bank of Commerce in the City of London and requested a transfer to Winnipeg to try life in Canada. Alice joined him and they were married in Winnipeg on 24th July 1915. World War 1 had started so he enlisted in the Canadian army and Alice became secretary to his commanding officer. When his battalion was posted to England Alice was on the same ship, the last passenger ship to cross the Atlantic till the end of the war, zigzagging all the way to avoid enemy submarines. After the war they returned to Canada and Horace to the bank. In June 1920 he was transferred to Nanaimo on Vancouver Island, their home for seven years. They had a son Horace Walter John (Bubbles) on 14th July 1921 and a girl, (myself), on 23rd January 1925 but six months later Bubbles died tragically while undergoing a simple tonsillectomy eight days before his 4th birthday. Half an hour earlier he was sitting on Alice’s knee playing ‘I Spy’. After two years another girl, Muriel Rose (Bunty) was born on the 14th August 1927, only just surviving after a very difficult birth. Then three months later Horace was struck down with what is now called Polio and in three days, on the 28th November 1927, he died in Vancouver hospital. He was 38 years old.

Alice Edith Lynde