WEDDING POSTPONED

Evening Star, Issue 21216, 24 September 1932, Page 13

WEDDING POSTPONED

COUPLE INJURED IN CRASH BOTH SENT TO HOSPITAL. An engaged couple, who were to have been married at Hurley, near Maidenhead, a few weeks ago, had to go to hospital two or three days earlier after a motor car accident. The wed* ding was postponed indefinitely. More than 300 invitations had been sent, including many to titled people.; Telegrams were sent notifying tho guests of the postponement of the wed* ding. The injured couple are Captain D,A. H. Bannennan, aged thirty-one, son of Canon J. H. Bannennan, who was to have performed the ceremony, of Combs Rectory, Stowmarket, Suffolk, and Miss Aileen Bishop, aged twenty-one, of Burchett’s Green, neaf Maidenhead. They were motoring back to Burchett’s Green from London when their motor car collided with a refuge and bounced into the back of an eightwheeled lorry. Captain Bannerman had an arm broken and Miss Bishop broke her leg. The car was wrecked. The couple’s romancp began a year ago in West Africa when Miss Bishop was visiting her uncle, Mr T. N. Goddard, Chief Assistant Colonial Secretary of Sierra Leone. At that time Captain Bannerman was attached to the West African Frontier Force at Sierra Leone. He returned to England only a few months ago, and arrangements for the wedding had been completed. Miss Bishop’s stepfather, with whom she lives, is Captain 11. T. 'Down, D. 5.0., R.N., who was gunnery lieu-tenant-commander in the battleship Neptune at the Battle of Jutland,