HOW HE GOT HIS FIANCEE FROM GERMANY

Chronicle (Levin), 11 January 1947, Page 3

HOW HE GOT HIS FIANCEE FROM GERMANY

LONDOX. An ex-inujor, Terence Carlyle Irvine, wlio married a woman froin Geriuany, toldt another ex-soldier tliat it was .simple to get his iianeee to Englaud. ALr. Irvine disciosed that he married Prau Kosemary von Z.immerman, forrner wit'e of a dennan ylji^er„at Kensington .iiegister Office. At his home in Hoikuul Park lie told tlie story of his bride's jour'ney to Knglaml to Private lienry Sterling, whose liancee, Klse llarms, is waiting in Ber1 in with a Control (Jommission permit to niarry liim in London. ' ' First, ' ' said Mf. . hvihe, F 'T; canjt;. advise ydu/lionfiitdf 'get; yoiur ,f rohf Berlin " 10 ; ;,idfc^nljpi5g.; j' : transit through the Kussraii zone. Aly own liancee 's transit was iixed after L was in cnstody. it meant passing her on a British truck with sal'e-eonduct to tlie British zbne. "After that it was simple. All L did wns to approach the Bteam Navigation t'ompany iu London, which lias u regular boat, the Woodlark, plyiug between LLamburg and Tilbury. 1 paid the toinpany £7 and instrueted kosemary to be at llamburg docks on a eertain date. She travelled iu t'air comfort and L met her at Tilbury. I ain goiug into business there early next year," he said. Mr. Irvine, who is -18, and won the Military Cross in the 1911-18 war, was dismissed from the Army in Mareh. following a court-martial. He pleaded guilty to eight charges of conduct prejudicial to good order and military discipliiie.