Quote Originally Posted by griff View Post
She’ll be 104 later this month. She has great memories of her younger life, not so much recently. She worked on the airfields at Brayton (Aspatria) and Kirkbride shunting aircraft around and driving pilots to their digs. My dad was mending or settings up instruments and often had to go up with a pilot to do so.

Family history has it that they met sheltering from the sun under the wing of a Flying Fortress but that has to be baloney. I mean, sun in Cumberland?
The WW1 Armistice was signed on November 11th 1918. Although this in reality was the end of the war it was officially only a 'cease fire'. The official end of WW1 was when The Treaty Of Versailles was signed on June 28th 1919. So presumably she was alive for the last 4½ months of the actual war (Armistice, November 11th 1918) and she was a year old at the time of the official formal end of the war (Treaty Of Versailles, June 28th 1919).