GENERAL’S DAUGHTER
MARRIAGE IK ENGLAND BORROWED GOWN LONDON, June 2R. Two young people who lost each other in Czechoslovakia and met again in an English meadow were married in Castleton’s small, eleventh century church. The bride, a general’s daughter, wore a borrowed gown of white satin, the groom a borrowed pin stripe suit.
They spoke the words —learned from a borrowed Prayer-book—haltingly. Nineteen-year-old Hildegarde Elizabeth Rohac, daughter of a former general in the Czech Army, and 26-year-old Franz Albert Johan used to live in the same village near Prague. They were engaged to marry until Franz had to flee from the Nazis and came to England. The two lost all trace of each other, for Hildegarde had disappeared from her village.
One day recently Franz Was walking through a meadow near his refuged home at Hollowforth Youth Hostel when he met a fresh party of refugees coming to the hostel. Hllddgarde was among them. They decided to get married as soon as possible. Neither could speak English, but they borrowed a Prayerbook and with the help of friends learned the answers parrot-fashion.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20010, 8 August 1939, Page 2
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