UNFORGETTABLE GIRL

Otago Witness, Issue 3489, 25 January 1921, Page 49

UNFORGETTABLE GIRL

REAL LIFE ROMANCE. LONDON, January 7. Birmingham’s “unforgettable girl” is sailing for Tasmania in February to marry ail Australian, a former sergeant in the A.1.F., whom she met by chance on a railway station. The Daily Mail of June 9, 1920, had the following announcement :—An Australian ex-sergeant, who holds the D.C.M. and M.M., has written to the Birmingham police asking them to help him in finding the girl he wants t 0 marry. In his letter he tells of love at first sight, and of ;• token received after 15 minutes talk from a railway carriage window. After serving in France, Flanders, and Gallipoli, he was demobilised, and en route for Liverpool and home. Ihe train stopped in Birmingham station. A young woman came the platform, and the Australian and two friends conversed with her during the quarter of an hour’s wait. Just before the train steamed out she gave a lock of hair to each. “To cut a long st-ory short,” declares the writer, “1 was smitten on the spot. It is about her that I am .writing to you, because I love her. I don t know her name, and have not a photograph of her, nor can I give you much of a description of her. Nevertheless, she was quite prepared to leave Birmingham then and there to accompany me to Australia, hut in the circumstances it was not to be considered.” The writer adds that the girl had pc feet teeth, which he believes to be In own. She lived with her grandmother, and was employed in a Birmingham factory. The Australian wants a full-length photograph of the girl, and e avs that after he has corresponded he will pay her fare out so that they may be married. To the police he promises “unending gratitude.” The police withhold the name of the Australian in order that he may not be inundated with letters from romanticallydisposed Birmingham misses. Next day the Daily Mail announced that the police had earned “unending gratitude,” they had found “the unforgettable girl.” A pretty girl of 25 yesterday morning presented herself as the girl in the case° She blushingly admitted having parted with the lock of hair in the circumstances described. She asked for the ardent Anzac’s name and address, and answered every question clearly and convincingly. When she i smiled her teeth showed the perfection which constituted one of the charms that had stirred the ex-sergeant’s emotions. She stipulated that her name should not be divulged, and said she would write to the “boy” at the other side of the world and send him the full-length photograph he asked for. At the time of the train-door incident she was working on munitions, but is now in business on her own account. The police are satisfied as to her identity with the subject of the letter.