WEDDING IN CAMP CHAPEL

Hutt News, Volume 16, Issue 13, 26 August 1942, Page 8

WEDDING IN CAMP CHAPEL

UNIQUE CEKEMONY For the first time in New Zealand <t Nuptial Eucharist was celebrated in a military camp chapel on August I.2th, when a soldier and his bride were married at the Church Army Institute in the Dominion's largest inland camp. The couple ~-ere Pte. Haiiey Matson Johanson, r.on of Mr.' and..Mrs. L. II McAsey, of Hawera, and Liorraine Hannah, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. K. J. Coile, of Ohakune; the service was performed by Captain llarold Irving, Church of England Chaplain to the Forces, and was attended by a number of civilian and military friends. Sergeant K. J. Cloile, in Home Guard uniform, gave his daughter away. The bride's twin sister, Mrs Commings, young widow of the present war, whose husband was killed in Wgypt, acted as matron of honi'te. A. O. liurke was best ma a. Set in tlus masculine atmosphere: of .c military cam]), the service was an impressive one, as through the rfo'einn rit.ua; of the marriage service there Intruded the undertones )f war, tin. impatient suittering of machine gun' l on r>ne of the camp ranges, auu the fai; U. heard commands of instructors on a nearby parr.(hi ground. During the service SergeantM.'jor T. J Kirk-Burnand, the wellknown musician, officiated at the •M-.ipei organ and his unit also pro— vidtd p. gucvd of honour with fixed ba;. ■■nei.s. An unolficial and unro-hi-arsed ovation was given the bridal party as I'iey left the chapel by a bi.tfalion or soldiers which had .nist been from the adjacent p.inuie ground.