SHELLS AS CONFETTI
AN AIR RAID WEDDING Anti-aircraft, shells were bursting round an enemy aeroplane overhead when a Wren and a soldier left a church in an English South-east Coast town after their wedding last month. The war atmosphere was completed by the shattered stained-glass windows of the Catholic church. Both bride and bridegroom wore uniform, and \\ rens formed a guard of honour. The bride was Miss Mabel Dorothy Knowles. She joined the Wrens at th# outbreak of war, -when she became engaged to Private William Edward Chandler, of the South Lanes. Regiment, whose parents live in Liverpool. The bridegroom is still on sick leave, having been badly wounded at Dunkirk.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23850, 28 December 1940, Page 2 (Supplement)
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