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This is practically a mirror image of my aunts story. She was engaged to someone in the air force during ww2. Told that he had died although my nan always had the suspicion that it wasn't true as my aunt knew nothing of his family and he never spoke about them.. Aunt went on to marry another airman a few years later.
Out of the blue in 1997 my mother received a phone call from someone who had tracked her down through the phonebook. Yes, it was my aunts 'dead fiance'. He must have been carrying around a burden of guilt all those years.He'd got a mate to visit my aunt to say he'd died . Truth was he was already married with a nine year old son when he got engaged to my aunt. My poor aunt was stunned but did meet him in the company of my mother when he owned up to what he had done. He died not long after.

You know, Julie, I wondered if this was a similar story. I was suspicious about the fact that there's no death on Commomwealth War Graves that match nor on the Canadian version, Virtual War Memorial..

Well, it is something I need to consider, but I'm not giving up yet until I can proove anything.

I will see what new info we can come up with. Try and confirm any full name if Ernest was the name he went by - or not. Just to see if we can rule out the earlier marriage found.

These American service men were terrible liars! There it is, I have to be blunt! but I have managed to discover that two other american service men who fathered british babies and one was already married with children, the other gave false home address and cannot be traced! If I know 3 people it happened to, how many more did the same thing! They must have been real charmers!

Once I can find out some more information from my friends family, I can get back to this thread and see if we can do some more digging.

Thanks everyone for helping, I hope you won't mind me coming back to you at a later date.
Best wishes
Dee