ROMANCE AT CENOTAPH
A DRAMATIC REUNION EX-NEW ZEALAND SOLDIER AND NURSE Press Association—By Telegraph-Copyright. LONDON, November 10. (Received November 11, at 10 a.m.) Tho ‘ Sunday Chronicle ’ states that a dramatic reunion occurred at the Cenotaph between an ex-New Zealand soldier named Victor Beethanij now a sheep farmer, who lost his leg in tho war, and a widow, Mrs Miriam Smith, formerly a V.A.D.- nurse. Beetham went to London to participate in the armistice celebrations. Interviewed, he said: “I became engaged to Miriam during the war, when she, was Miss M'Naughton. She refused to leavo her widowed mother in order to go to Australia, and the engagement was broken off. She wrote that she was about to marry, and correspondence ceased. A mutual friend later wrote to me saying that Miriam’s husband was dead.” The pair met at the Cenotaph by surprise. Beetham takes Mrs Smith back as his bride.
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Evening Star, Issue 20329, 11 November 1929, Page 10
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ROMANCE AT CENOTAPH
Evening Star, Issue 20329, 11 November 1929, Page 10
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