Trull couple celebrate 65 years of marriage
WARTIME sweethearts Eric and Peggy Pearce from Trull are celebrating 65 years of marriage.
The pair, seen above,who have just marked their Blue Sapphire anniversary, were engaged after only three weeks of meeting each other.
They were married two months later. During the war, Eric was a young sub-lieutenant in the Fleet Air Arm and was shot down in the Mediterranean and taken prisoner in North Africa.
Peggy worked for the Red Cross at Clarence House, London, before it was the home of the Queen Mother. After the war Eric, became a director of the John Lewis Partnership and they both retired to Trull in 1990 to be near their family in Corfe.
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