A ROMANCE OF WAR.
FREE STATE COMMANDANT’S MARRIAGE. CEREMONY PERFORMED WHILE A CAPTIVE. Bar Tele*rar>h—Pres* Association—CopyriJtfc* United Rervice. (Received August 23, 9.27 a.m.) LONDON, August 21. The Limerick correspondent of the <c Daily Mail” states that, a romance of the Irish War lias been disclosed. Colonel-Commandant O’Neill, one of the best fighting Free Staters, obtained marriage leave and was travelling with his finance© to Roscrea for the ceremony. When within sight of the church their motor cars were ambushed and the party were taken prisoners. They were conveyed to the Rebel Headquarters in the mountains, where th© women were released, but the Colonel detained. A few days later, his finance© received a message, after which 6he was taken to a farmhouse in the mountains. Hero a. priest performed the ceremony, while the husband was still a captive.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16819, 23 August 1922, Page 6
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