Marriage Under Fire
HEN the wedding couple arrived near the church, the German airmen chose to fly over London and drop bombs. Everybody went to earth including the bride-to-be and my young hopeful. After five hours underground they came up into the fresh air once more, and managed to get in touch
with the clergyman again. He made the next appointment for 9 o'clock in the morning. Luck was with them on this second occasion-up to a point. In my boy’s ignorance of wedding procedure he had come along without any witnesses. This was soon rectified, however, as he went out into the street and induced an aifman and a Canadian soldier to witness the ceremony.
Having been declared man and wife they left the church and had only crossed the road when they had to make for an air raid shelter once more, as the Hun decided to make himself unpopular again. Their first five hours of honeymooning was spent underground, and after a hasty meal, he just had time to catch a train that was to take him to an unknown destination.-(" Tense emer, Major Lampen, 2YA, August 14.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 113, 22 August 1941, Page 5
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191Marriage Under Fire New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 113, 22 August 1941, Page 5
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