A WEDDING IN EGYPT.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 May 1917, Page 2

A WEDDING IN EGYPT.

Q life a roman’ie and certainly record military wedding took place recently at Abbassia, near Cairo, when Second-Lieutenant Lesley Alexander Wilkie, A.1.F., of Melbourne, was married to Miss Ruth Maughan Robson, of Gatton (Q), on the nursing staff A.1.F., says the British Australasian.” As Sister Robson was under immediate orders to proceed on transport duty to Australia, there was no time to lose if the wedding was to take place before she lef‘, and after Lieutenant Wilkie’s unsuccessful efforts to get ths usual military permission, a sporting padre citne to the rescue, and obtained the necessary permit for tbs marriage at 11 p,m, on January 20tb. At 2'30 p,m. the same afternoon the wedding was celebrated at C. of E. Garrison Chapsl, 14'h A.G.5., Abbaseia. The bride waß given away by Major Stuckey, A.I.F. (N.S.W.), and the bridesmaids were Sisters Grover and Johnson, of , Queensland. The groomsmen were Captain P. D. Robineon (Q) and Lieutenant W. Stewart, of Melbourne. Sister'Robson was one of the most popular nurses ou the staff* and the wedding caused much local interest, and at the ceremony tho chapel was filled with friend", who came along at short notice, After a email tea at Shepherds’, Cairo, the couple left on the evening train for Suez, and next afternoon the bride embarked for Australia.