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The Bombed Wedding

by Ipswich Museum

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Ipswich Museum
People in story: 
Ada Airey
Location of story: 
Ipswich
Background to story: 
Civilian
Article ID: 
A3436120
Contributed on: 
22 December 2004

I was at St Margaret’s Church for my friends wedding when a bomb landed and exploded outside the church. Sadly they both got killed. This was the last bomb that fell in Ipswich before the war ended.

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