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Gladys quit working for the Minivers and joined the WAAC's (Women's Army Auxiliary Corps.) At the time we hear about this the family is having dinner and speculating that as well as being patriotic Gladys will also be serving in the same town where Horace is stationed. I assume they both continued to serve there until war's end.

Judging by the responses you've gotten so far, it seems like most of them think that Horace was the cat. Since we never see Horace or Gladys again, it's impossible to tell without reading the book.
"Why do you find it so hard to believe?"
"Why do you find it so easy?"
"It's never BEEN easy!"

No, there is not a gap. Unfortunately, we may have to face
that fact that Horace did not survive the destruction ravaged
on the house. People who lived through World War II would
have been prepared for that possibility that anybody or
anything might no survive the onslaught of bombings.
Remember, this movie is not made for happily-ever-after
endings of 21st Century audiences. It dealt with the
horrors of what the British families were facing at the
height of the Battle of Britain.

what about her brand new hat with the veil?
Smoke me a kipper. Ill be back for breakfast

Oh, yes, the cat in Mrs. Miniver. I had a book once called 'Cats in the Movies' and it profiled the cat in Mrs. Miniver. Her real name name was Beth, and she was born in Los Angeles in 1938. She belonged to a lady called Mrs. Friary and had a contract with MGM. Beth can be glimpsed in Cabin in the Sky (1943), The Human Comedy (1943), National Velvet (1944), and Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945). Margaret O'Brien was photographed with her on the set of the latter and, allegedly, has a 'signed' copy of the photo (Beth's paw print). She passed away in 1947 (Beth, not Margaret O'Brien!). In the 1980s Greer Garson was approached to support a campaign for Beth to have a star bearing her name on Hollywood's Walk of Fame, but the Oscar-winning leading lady of Mrs. Miniver declined.

Also what happened to the cat??after the shelter scene it was never seen again.I Think the film was cut here as every copy I have watched has a gape here??Is there some missing footage!!!

Though there would be no others so much in love with cats