MARRIED IN DESERT BACKGROUND
N.Z. NURSING SISTER AND SOUTH AFRICAN (Official War Correspondent N.Z.E.F.) Cairo, Feb. 2. A New Zealand nursing sister, MollyRyan, was married on Saturday to Captain S. J. B. Van Herden, South African sports officer to the Union Defence Force Base. The ceremony was held in the open against a background of Army huts and desert dunes. A large guard of honour was formed by one company of New Zealanders and one company of South Africans. The bride was given away by Colonel Duncan Stout, chief New Zealand consulting surgeon in the Middle East. Speeches at the ceremony emphasised the close bond between New Zealand and South Africa.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 28, 4 February 1943, Page 5
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