Anniversary

On this day in 1942 Ernest Thirkettle and I were married at Emanuel Church, West Dulwich, London. Church bells had been silent since the beginning of the war, only to be rung if enemy parachutists were seen. But on this day, because after a series of setbacks, we had finally captured El Alamein in the North African campaign permission was given for church bells to sound a peal of rejoicing. So the bells rang out joyfully on our wedding day.