ROMANTIC WAR WEDDING.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 533, 25 October 1915, Page 4

ROMANTIC WAR WEDDING.

The only Englishwoman who has been married to a British soldier in Paris during the war is at present staying at Peckham Eye, where she and her husband went to the same school years ago.

This is Mrs Grierson, wife of Corporal George (Grierson, of the Lincolnshire Regiijient, who has been described by onp of his officers as "the straightest mgn in the British Army." Mrs Grierson, who as a girl was known as Cissie Ling, went to Cannes as a nurse last October, and in January to Paris, where she joined the Red Cross service. It was as Nurse Ling that she met her husband in Paris on April 1. He was at that time acting as a member of the British Military Police 'in Paris, f

Mrs Grierson told a reporter about her romantic encounter with her husband.

"Every one tried to make an April fool of me," she said, ""but 110 one succeeded until I met my husband. I was going along the Champs Elysees when a British soldier whom I passed exclaimed, '.Exctrse me, nurse, you have dropped your pocket handkerchief.' I turned around to pick up my handkerchief, saw that I had been made an April fool as last, and by way of repaying the joke I gave the soldier a really good smack on the cheek, and then went on my way laughing. "I did not know the soldier, and he did not know me, but he told his comrades that he was sure lie knew my face, and that he was determined to find me again, and meanwhile I had made the acquaintance of one of his comrades in the Military Police —Jack McKenna, of the Black Watch, who was afterwards best man at our wedding. . • He at once told my husband that he had met me, and so my husband and I met again. We then found that when we were children we both went to Nunhead Passage Board School at Peckham Rye. On July 10 he asked me to marry him. We had to give 14 days' notice of the marriage, and on July 28 our wedding took place at the British Embassy Church"A friend lent us a motor-car for the day, and all the Military Police came and formed a guard of honour. At the end of the marriage service we all stood in front of the alter and sang 'God Save the King.' "