Rosalind Elder was a member of "The Rose and Thistle Club" as it was known then. She was a library technician for some 22 years in Ontario. She was member of the Women's Timber Corps when she married in January of 1946 in Carrbridge Invernesshire.

Rosalind (Elder) Walsh

Born:
Maiden Name: Elder
From: Glasgow, Scotland
Occupation: Lumberjill
Husband: Louis a. Walsh
Date of Marriage:
Date of Departure: Southhampton, England
Ships Name: Ile De France tripe took 6 Days
There were 30 war brides on board and no children.
Date / Port Arrived in Canada: Pier 21, Halifax
Port of Arrival in NL.:Port aux Pasques
Settled in: St. John's, Nova Scotia 1959,
Toronto 1966 and retired to Vancover Island, BC
Children: Rosalind, Louis, Gordon, Colin and
Heather (twins) all born in St. John's

"...My daughter recently found an old wedding photograph of Louis Walsh and I, taken in Scotland which I have attached, I loved that beautiful hat and wore it to meet his family. He was 5'11" and I was 5'5' I look taller there...."

Rosalind Elder has her own site http://www.womenstimbercorps.com/."Deicated to the over 4,900 young women who joined the Women's Land Army Timber Corps (W.L.A.T.C.) in WWII in order to make a contribution to the war effort. They worked in the forests of Great Britain, felling, snedding,loading, crosscutting, driving tractors, trucks, working with horses, measuring and operating sawmills. This was done in all kinds of weather. One thousand were camped in wooden huts in the north of Scotland, others in rugged billets, far from the comforts of family and home."...


Information from The Newfoundland War Brides by BBC Scotland
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/46/a4862946.shtml
The BBC has many links for Mrs Rosalind Elder which are all worth looking
at and along the way you may find more people and stories of interest.