Sailor And Wife On Wedding Day, early 1950s

1953

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Bill and Jenny Dunlevy.

Bill was a crew member on the HMS Exeter when it was sunk during the Battle of the Java Sea. He became a prisoner of war and worked in mines on the Japanese mainland. He was just thirty miles away when the first atomic bomb used in warfare was dropped on Hiroshima.

[Jenny Dunlevy was the aunt of Bill Garden’s wife Janet]

Donor number: 0237-010

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1950s 1953 arm in arm atomic bomb battle boat bouquet cap carpet couple curtain dress earrings fashion flower forced labour handkerchief Hiroshima HMS Exeter holding hands horseshoe indoor jacket Japan Java Sea just married marriage medal men mine necklace newly wed pow prisoner of war ribbon sailor Second World War ship shirt shoes sinking smiling standing THELMA tie trousers uniform veil wedding wedding dress women world war two

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