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Definition of GI bride in English: GI bridenoun British informal A British woman who, during the Second World War, married a US serviceman stationed in Britain. many Londoners went back to America after the war as GI brides Example sentencesExamples - "I am very keen to get the memories of those whose parents were GIs or GI brides," he said.
- Often the only support networks these women had were ones they made themselves with other GI brides, who set up clubs where they would socialize.
- My eldest sister married an American serviceman and became a GI bride at 16 years of age.
- She would tell us many stories of life over there, but she hated the crossing to America with many other GI brides.
- Being a GI bride was not always Hershey bars and milkshakes and lazy car rides to the lake.
- It was Margaret's story that inspired Nuala to write the book about GI brides and the lives they went on to lead.
- Pam, a GI bride, was awarded an MBE for her work reuniting GI babies with their dads.
- At the age of 91 she flew to Oklahoma City to see her sister, a GI bride who had emigrated after the war.
- Dr Jackson spent a year interviewing GI brides and local historians.
- The American base had been billed in the British press as a "country club" for GI brides, but it was anything but.
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