BRIDE'S ESCAPE
MARRIED IN FRANCE LAST JANUARY. Wearing her soldier husband's battledress. Mi's Lucette Allanson escaped from St. Malo. France, and for the first time met her husband's parents at Withcrnea. Yorkshire, says the “Daily Express." Mrs Allanson, who is 20 years old. is French-born. She met her husband Corporal Sidney Allanson. aged 22, in a money exchange bureau at Brest and they were married in January last at St Malo Cathedral, the bride interpreting the service for her husband. When the Germans invaded France Corporal Allanson told his wife: “J have got. to get to the coast, but I'm not. going without you.” Lucette told her husband's parents: “I put on S'dney's spare battledress and tucked my hair under a steel helmet, but I had trouble in keeping my long hair tucked away all the time. With one blanket and a dress I got away in a car in which we slept two nights. We were machine-gunned and bombed."
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 September 1940, Page 6
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