[3] In 1943 she met Company Sergeant Major (CSM) Bill Lyster of the Calgary Highlanders, a Canadian regiment stationed in her home town of Aldwick, Sussex.

In 1969 she and her husband retired to Qualicum Beach on Vancouver Island where she maintained an active writing career.

Her article "A Bloody Miracle", an account of the Calgary Highlanders' Mortar Platoon's experience on the Dieppe Raid, was chosen as the lead story by Legion Magazine to mark the fortieth anniversary of that unhappy event.

It has been frequently reprinted, notably in the book, True Canadian War Stories, from the pages of the Legion Magazine.

In the same book is "Ten Days and Seven Thousand Miles", her account of her journey to Canada on the first all-warbride sailing of the RMS Mauretania (1938) in February 1946.