A WAR ROMANCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 October 1915, Page 11 (Supplement)

A WAR ROMANCE.

PROPERLY TERMINATED. London, August 12. Paris has been the scene of a real war romance which has just Terminated in merry peals of wedding bells. "Somewhere in Peckham" a Miss Cissie Leo went to school with George Due another when their school days were over, but when the war came George joined the Lincolnshire Regiment. He took part in all their deeds of glory, and at Ypres he received a severe wound which kept him in hospital for a long period. Then it was discovered that his wound had rendered him unfit for further active service, and the authorities drafted him into the military police in Paris under Major Maurice Brett, the provost-marshal. One morning George was parading the Champs Eiysees when he saw a Red Cross nurse. It was Cissie, and their first courting was done beneath the chestnut trees - on the bench near the children's playground. George had learnt how to take the offensive at Ypres; in Paris he did not let the grass in the Champs Eiysees grow beneath his feet. In four days they were engaged; and twenty-nine days after their meeting in Paris they knelt in church and were united by the Rev. Stanley Blunt, chaplain of the British Embassy. This was a real khaki wedding, and it was the first time that a British soldier on active service had -been married in France

Mr. Blunt invited the bride, bridegroom, and all the members of the military police to a sumptuous wedding breakfast at a restaurant near the Palais RoyaL