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Pen pals wed after a whirlwind romance

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File 201
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File key 7201
File MB 600 2.7
File megabytes 2.5
File resolution 300
File resolution 600 300
File size 29 x 20
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ID 611
Object ID RAO/56/13
Object name newspaper article
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Status In Store
Status by AJA
Updated 2nd September 2015
Updated by AJA
X date 1992
Equipment registration mark (ERM)
Full name L/Cpl Stephen Lock
Early date 1992
Late date 1992
Transcription RAO / 56 / 13-
Bicester Advertiser
OUR 113th YEAR
US wives
22p
AND MID - OXON CHRONICLE INCORPORATING THE BICESTER HERALD AND THE BRACKLEY OBSERVER
atem
2 .
WIN £ 500 !!! PAGE 3
Pen - pals wed after a whirlwind romance
her home in Westcliffe on - Sea ..
I do not believe in love at first sight , it takes some time . But we hit it off , " said Steve .
Gulf war pen - pals Steve Lock and Sally Lands are getting married next month following a whirlwind
romance .
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A. V. BOWNE & SON
MARKET
SQUARE ,
Steve , 25 , ( left , with a picture of Sally ) was serving in the Gulf
when a friend received a birthday card covered with the names of young women from a law firm in London ..
They had answered an
BICESTER
Tel . Bicester 252059 .
YOUR LOCAL GENTS HAIRDRESSER AND TOBACCONIST
appeal from Army lads for pen - friends .
FRIDAY , April 24 , 1992
" My friend was writ ing back and I asked him to see if I could have a pen - pal too . Sal ly wrote back and it went from there , " said Steve , a lahce corporal in the Royal Army Ord
nance Corps , now based . at Bicester .
When Steve first got leaves last year after the war he first went home to Weymouth but met up with Sally , also 25 ; at ,
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After the war he was posted back to Germany with 6 Ordnance Corps . Sally flew over to see him in Germany several times .
" And I went to see her every leave I had , " said Steve , who was posted to St George's Barracks , Arncott , in February .
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