PEERS SON KILLED
MOTORING ACCIDENT SECRET BRIDE LEFT 1 TORQUAY, July 15. The lion. Randal Patrick Plunkett, 21-year-old second son of Lord Louth, leaving home last night, for training with his regiment at Colchester, kissed his 21-year-old wife Owen good-bye. A few minutes later be returned, took her photograph from the dining-room. "If I can't have Gwdn with me," he called to her mother, "1 can have her picture." He got into his car and drove off. Soon after 5 a.m. to-day a lorry driver iroiug along a misty road near Honiton found (he car wrecked. Inside was Mi'. Blanket!, dead. Beside his body was a little terrier whining -and the portrait of his wife Gwen.
Only when his identity became known was if revealed that Mrs. Blunkett was the daughter of a Torquay chauffeur, whom he had married secretly live months ago at \ewfon Abbot. Mrs. Plunkett was formerly a hairdresser's assistant at Torquay. Her husband was a second lieutenant in the Supplementary Reserve. His regiment was the Inniskillings.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19130, 26 September 1936, Page 11
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170PEERS SON KILLED Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19130, 26 September 1936, Page 11
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