13,000 MILE TRIP

Grey River Argus, 1 March 1945, Page 6

13,000 MILE TRIP

COBDEN BRIDE WITH CAKE. LONDON, December 9. The “Daily Mirror” say.S; In 1940 Sergeant Desmond J. Scott, Royal N.Z.A.F., of Greymouth, New Zealand, sailed for England with a wedding ring in his pocket. He was not looking for an English bride, for he left another ring—an engagement ringin his home town on the linger of his childhood sweetheart, petite, browneyed J’oyce Ramage, then aged twenty. Sergeant Scott was determined to have the wedding ring handy—just in case. A’nd now, as Group Captain Scott, D. 5.0., 0.E.E., D.F.C. and Bar, he has placed it on Joyce’s finger at All Saints’ Church, Ipswich, Suffolk. The bride had followed all the 13,000 miles from New Zealand with the wedding- cake. It was a very special wedding cake, made by her mother. The bride’s trousseau, her white wedding dress and veil, her orange blossom and other fineries were stored away in a trunk on board ship, but she would not let "mother’s cake” out of her hand for one minute. “I nursed it all the way,' she told the “Daily Mirror” yesterday. “They wanted to put it into the refrigerator on the ship but 1 wasn’t parting with it for a second.” Group Captain Scott’s base unit padre, Squadron Leader the Rev. R. O. Tasker, was flown specially over from Holland to be there to see that the New Zealand ring was put' securely on the little New Zealand finger. The “Daily Mirror” also prints a photo of the newly wedded pair.