AIR RAID WEDDING
POLISH BRIDE AND GROOM REFUGE IN A SHELTER [from our own correspondent] LONDON, Sept. 2(5 A Polish couple became man and wife at the Chelsea Register Office, London, just as the first air raid warning was sounded on the first day of the war. They spent the first 10 minutes of their honeymoon in an air raid shelter. Another couple were married just as the last note of the "all clear" signal had died away. For 14 hours on this • Sunday the registrar was kept busy, so great was the rush to get married on the outbreak of war. Other register offices in London wero also working at top pressure. ■ Most of the couples carried their gas masks in boxes slung over their shoulders. Some of the bridegrooms wero in uniform.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23481, 19 October 1939, Page 4
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