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TOP: Cpl. G. R. Lucas with his wife, Yvonne, and their seven-month-old son, Robert. ]BELOW: Sig. J. J. Morris, of Norwood, greets his wife, Jane, and his two daughters, June, 14 months (right), and Kay, 3 months. Help
TOP: Cpl. G. R. Lucas with his wife, Yvonne,
and their seven-month-old son, Robert.
BELOW: Sig. J. J. Morris, of Norwood, greets his
wife, Jane, and his two daughters, June, 14
months (right), and Kay, 3 months.
JAP BRIDES IN SA WITH
SOLDIER HUSBANDS
Two Japanese brides are not likely ever to forget 1.10 p.m.,
Thursday, January 7, 1954—today.
At that moment,
they stepped from a
Sydney plane, with
their soldier husbands
on to South Australian
soil for the first time,
and to live here.
Three other Japanese
wives of Australian soldiers
they married in Japan
went on to Perth.
The Adelaide couples
were Cpl. G. R. Lucas and
Mrs. Lucas, and their son
Robert, aged six months,
and Sig. J. J. and Mrs.
Morris, and their
daughters June, 14 months,
and Kay, three months.
Cpl. Lucas met his wife,
formerly Miss Inouye
Yoshiko, now 26, when she
became a teletype operator
and interpreter in the
Army Public Relations
office in Kure.
She was born in Mukden,
Manchurla, and lived
there until she came to
Japan in 1947.
Three weddings
Mr. and Mrs. Lucas,
who will live at Mount
Gambier, went through
three separate marriage
ceremonies.
“First we were married
in Sacred Heart Church,
Kure,” said Cpl. Lucas.
“After that, it was at the
British Embassy, in Kobe,
and then in the Kure City
Hall. We’re well tied,
aren’t we.”
Mr. Lucas’s father was
killed in Malaya in 1942 in
action with the 2/18 Battalion.
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