People sheltering in air raid shelter. 30th September 1940 first two people

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People sheltering in air raid shelter. 30th September 1940
first two people on their honeymoon Lance corporal and Mrs Knightley
Original Caption. Lance-Corporai Herbert K. Knightley (front left) and his bride, Miss Irene Bavin (front right) in their bridal chamber. They settled down
to sleep after relatives had drunk their health.
Bombed out of her home twice in a fortnight, a twenty -year-old bride spent the first night of her wedding with her soldier husband in an underground air raid shelter at Heston (Middlesex). The parents of both the bride and the bridegroom sat at their side. The girl was Irene Bavin, of Southwell-road, Camberwell. A few hours after th e wedding she and her bridesmaids took off their silk dresses, put on day frocks, and went to the shelter. The young husband, Lance-Corporal Herbert Kitchener Knightley, twenty-four, of West-way, Heston, blushed when the 200 men, women and children in the shelter called out good wishes as the bridal party walked down the steps. Then, while A.A. guns boomed outside, relatives drank their ! health as they sat on benches along the walls. It is not a bit like I imaged my wedding night would be a few weeks ago, the bride told me before she and her husband settled down for the night, with travelling rugs around their shoulders. We re Lucky But I suppose we were lucky to have a wedding at all. My family and I were bombed out of our home at Brixton. Then we moved to a relation nearby, and were bombed out of their home, too. So we came to live with Herberts mother. She turned to her husband. But we are happy dear, aren t we? Yes replied Lance -, Corporal Knightley, and still keeping our chins up. The bride did not know until the previous day whether the young soldier would be able to get leave for the wedding, although the date had been fixed and the bands read. I m not particular on going to the shelter Lance Corporal Knightley said. but it is better for Irene. I expect most of our honeymoon nights will be spent here, but she is coming away with me at the end of the week for a few days. Said his mother: I lost a little daughter in the air-raids on London during the last war. I did not dream that my son and his wife would have to spend their wedding night. © Mirrorpix

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