My dad was shipped home in 1945 and my mom followed

on the Queen Mary in February 1946.

My mom was born in Palmers Green, Essex, 1922, moved to Romford at age 4. Lived at 500 Mawney Rd. She worked at the Pearl Assurance Company, on High Holborn Street, London, until the Germans began the London Blitz. She was moved by the Pearl to Shrewsbury in Shropshire where the company took over the Crown Hotel for employee housing and set up offices in Attingham Hall, a mansion just outside Shrewsbury. Shortly after, she was conscripted into war service and stationed in Worcester, working at the ROF (Royal Ordnance Factory) making bullet casings. One of her friends from Romford, Sylvia Toms was also stationed there and they both lived in Worcester with a Mr. & Mrs. Pugh.  
 
During their time in Worcester, they would frequent the Shakespeare Inn (now the Cricketer, 6 Angel Street) where my mom met my dad. They also went to a place called the Pack Horse. They attended and enjoyed the many dances at the Camp and especially liked the bands.

My older brother was born in Romford in May 1945,

Ron Giacone was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., November 1946.

My mom is an only child, so no siblings. She is still in touch with one of her cousins, Derrick Leaky of Kelvedon Hatch, Essex and with her childhood friend Sylvia Toms, now living on the Isle Of Wight. Sylvia married an RAF officer, Ron Edgar, and through the years have visited each other in the UK and here in the states. There are other distant members of the Crickett family living in and around the Romford area but we are not in touch.
 
In 1958, my moms parents Daisy and Robert Crickett retired and moved to live with us in New York. My grand-father lived to be 90 and my grandmother was 6 months shy of 100 when she died. My grandfather born in Tottenham, London, was a World War I veteran, who fought and was wounded at the Battle of Gallipoli. After he recovered he was returned to active duty and stationed in Palestine.