Cute soldier

Here's my dad in his army uniform with his parents in 1942. 

He looks a bit awkward and his father's face is hidden behind smoke, but the best part of this picture is the back, "Cute soldier what I love, xx."

Their first child was born in September, 1942. 

Mother-in-law

My mom and my paternal grandmother. 

It looks to me like Grandma is holding knitting needles, but that might just be me. Vancouver, I suppose? And what could they be looking at? Taken in 1943. 

Some de Bruyns in August 1944

My father, his mother, father, brother and sister. I knew my Auntie Ida, but both de Bruyn grandparents had passed on by the time I was born. 

No idea what house this was, but in Vancouver somewhere, I'd wager. 

Ladies in a garden

I thought that these two ladies were my father's aunts, but am now leaning towards the woman on the left being my grandmother and the one on the right being her sister-in-law, Tante Leen, or Aunt Helena. 

My grandmother had very European handwriting. I believe it says "Tante Leen and I visiting the Lukken (maybe Sukken, Lukkes, Sukkes?) Gardens.