On This Day
On This Day, 9 October 1917
On 09, Oct 2017 | In On This Day | By Nicola Gauld
Evening Despatch
Tuesday 9 October 1917
“GAZETTE” SOLDIER’S WEDDING
The wedding took place today at St. Thomas’s Church, Stourbridge, by special licence, of Second-lieutenant Hatton, of the Manchester Regiment, and Miss Ada Drewry, Witton-Street, Stourbridge.
Lieutenant Hatton, whose home address is Mount-street, Stourbridge, was employed by the “Birmingham Gazette” before the war. He joined the Army as a private in August, 1914, and was recently gazetted. He shortly joins his regiment abroad.
