Liverpool Police - wedding of Bombardier George Stewart, Royal Field Artillery

Liverpool Weekly Courier 1 May 1915

FROM HILL 60 TO ALTAR

MILITARY WEDDING AT WOOLTON

The wedding too place at Woolton Wesleyan Churh this week, of Miss Emily Hesketh, youngest daughter of the late Mr J.H. Hesketh and Mrs Hesketh of High Street, and Bombadier George Stewart of the Royal Field Artillery, and a member of the Woolton section of the City Police.

With another member of the section, constable Smith, he responded in August to the call to arms, both being reservists, and went out with the Expeditionary Force. They had lodged together, and both had arranged to get married in August. Unfortunately Constable Smith was killed in the retreat from Mons. Bombadier Stewart has been through all the engagements from Mons to the fighting at Hill 60 last Thursday, and obtaining a few days leave he hurried home and the wedding was arranged.

A number of members of the police force, together with military from the Convalescent Home and other rest institutions in Woolton and Allerton, attended as a guard of honour, and school children waving Union Jacks added to the village rejoicings.

Bombardier Stewart will rejoin his battery at the front on Friday.

Chester Chronicle 1st May 1915

FROM HILL 60 TO THE ALTAR.

A CHESTER HONEYMOON.

Bombardier George Stewart, R.F.A., who went out with the Expeditionary Force in August and has been from Mons to the Marne and back to the Yser, and who took part in the successful fight for Hill 60 last Thursday, was married on Tuesday at Woolton to Miss Emile Hesketh. The bridegroom was a member of the Liverpool City Police, and a section of the police and military attended as a guard of honour. Given a few days leave from the battle front, Stewart hurried home and arranged the wedding. He will spend a brief honeymoon at Chester and return to France this weekend.