Her penfriend Walter Taylor was stationed in the Middle East.

It would be two years before the pair would meet and by then, she had moved interstate to join the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force.

``My father was in the navy and his brother was killed in the Somme,'' she said.

``It was Christmas 1942 when I enlisted. I did my rookies for five or six weeks and then I was posted to Mildura for 18 months.

``At 18, I thought it was wonderful. I was nursing with about 50 girls on a station and there were two doctors who were a great help.

``I wasn't trained as a nurse but I had a St John Ambulance first aid certificate and we dealt with whatever came along.''

Back on home soil, Mr Taylor and Mrs Christie officially met, dated and married.

``We had been writing for two years so we had formed an attachment,'' she said. ``We were married for 27 years. He was a wonderful man.''

After her mother took ill, she was granted compassionate leave and discharged in 1944.

In 1971, her husband died.

She found love again 10 years later when she met Hugh Christie on a blind date. ``We jelled,'' she said of their meeting at a lawn bowls game. Mr Christie died seven years after they were married.

Mrs Christie has found solidarity with the women she met through the Camden War Widows Guild and Legacy.

She doesn't always attend the Camden Remembrance Day service.

``If I'm feeling teary I don't go down,'' she said. ``But I think about both my husbands and what wonderful men they were.''

The Camden RSL Sub-branch Remembrance Day service will be held at Macarthur Park on Wednesday, November 11. Please be seated by 10.20am.