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Stand By to Get Married: Anne Holland on Love, Letters and Separation in Wartime

“STAND BY TO GET MARRIED NEXT WEEK AM COMING ON LEAVE FORTHWITH.” In 1941, young British officer Rex fell in love with Margaret, an American heiress serving as a VAD nurse. After a whirlwind courtship and hurried wartime wedding, Rex was posted overseas. The newlyweds would spend the next 1,337 days apart. Their letters, written […]