A rainy day couldn't stop 100-year-old Winnie Rice from attending a memorial service for veterans.

Rice was among about 100 attendees who gathered in Saint John on Sunday morning to commemorate the sailors, merchant mariners and aviators who died in the Battle of the Atlantic.

Rice comes from a naval family. She said her father and brother served in the British navy.

Born in England, she joined the British army as a teenager and served during the Second World War.