'Your Mother Wore Army Boots'

Your Mother Wore Army Boots

 Having never known her natural father, it  became an obsessive and lifelong operation to find him from the age of seventeen.

Catterick Army Garrison, Yorkshire was once home to the romantic liaisons of her young W.R.A.C. mother and her real father.

The Royal Signals was the regiment that both had committed their lives to.

Her mother came home alone and pregnant; never knowing that her lover had been sent to Korea. 

They never saw each other again.

Rosie's barren search continued over many agonising years until she discovered the breakthrough that she had longed for.

This is the story of a heart-wrenching and emotionally charged journey half way across the world; a trip that was held up by terrorists plots; the closure of major London Airports now on critical stand-by and surrounded by armed Police.

A lone journey of self-discovery to find her father ....and herself; it reveals through hilarity and tears something of the determination

that many of us must dig deep to find when challenged with personal and life changing decisions.

'A truly amazing story of tenacity, willpower, drive and determination. A moving story of one woman’s sheer grit and strength of mind that will leave you in awe of her breathtaking achievement.'

Rosie  searched  for her father over a staggering thirty-five years. She always new that the painstaking and meticulous  research would be rewarded by her finding him. Rosie’s search eventually takes her to Canada when she discovers against the unimaginable odds that he is still alive and living in Vancouver, British Columbia in Western Canada.

It transpires to be a journey of self discovery and a genuine rollercoaster of emotions.

Having never known her natural father, it eventually became an obsessive operation to find him. As Army Personnel based at Catterick Garrison, Yorkshire, this was once the home to the romantic liaisons of her then young mother and her real father. Rosie’s mother came home alone and pregnant; never knowing that her lover had been sent to Korea … they never saw each other again. The barren  search continued over many, many agonising years until she discovered the major breakthrough that she had longed for.  

Never giving  up hope she eventually obtained her father’s telephone number.

At first Rosie did not have the nerve to follow it up, believing that by exposing her existence upon them would perhaps create disarray and anger in an unsuspecting family's life.

 With  her emotions so rocked  it took two days of shock before she   eventually found the necessary courage to make that all important call.

Finding the inner strength to make the call changed her life forever.

 He was overjoyed, tremendously moved and totally overwhelmed to make that connection with her.

Rosie’s reunion became even more moving and rewarding when her father astonishingly revealed that she had five half sisters living in Canada

.....and one half brother somewhere in England.

'Your Mother Wore Army Boots' is a journey of personal discovery and is an enormously hopeful account of the emancipation that opened up the flood gates to her real self.

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Introduction  

All over the world whether it be war babies, adopted children, abandoned or orphaned children; these are the ordinary people who also have a dream to find their biological parents.