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A  SUPERB  ALBUM   26/18/3 cm     fifty  photos  (  sizes from 20/15 cm to  10/8 cm ) showing  the happy couple, the wedding cake, guests, people eating food, cutting the cake. various  guests  mostly named  also a few of their new home  etc 

 

From the estate  of    528543 T/Corporal Webber Tom Butler, Webber RAF  Who went overseas in November 1938 and became an air gunner  serving on the North West frontier, he was then stationed at Butterworth station in Malaya from 25.07.

John  Webber was originally born in Coleford. His brother, cousin, and father also lived in India and had important roles within the Indian military including Major Webber Assistant ARP controller, and Captain Webber in the Bombay volunteer artillery. More about these family members can be seen  as background  below  . His new  wife  Edna May  worked in the Telegraph sensors, office in Bombay and governments house in Bombay throughout the war. she was  able to work  to a good degree sense of speed and accuracy, able to censor with the aid of books,, also able to speak colloquial French. 

 

THE  ALBUM  COMPRISES AN INDIAN LOVE  STORY  THE WEBBERS   WEDDING DAY RECORD 

 Mrs Edna May Clyne marries  John Butler Webber on 5/5/1942 at St Thomas cathedral BOMBAY . 

 

Webber  also  served in  Jerusalem, Afghanistan, North Malaya, Indonesia, India, Singapore, Sumatra, Java, Karachi, Ambala etc. 

 

 

 

Guardian 8th 1942 states; “Coleford, news from India, Coleford airmans round tour; some weeks ago, the parents of Corporal, John Webber of schoolhouse Coleford, received a cable stating that their son had arrived Karachi, in India, after serving in North Malaya with the raf. An air graph receive this week from ambala in the pujab runs as follows: this is the first opportunity I have had to communicate with you for sometime. Thanks to Old, George Tojo but in spite of numerous near misses etc. I am still hole. I passed through here 14 months ago I was staring around tour that would carry me through Malaya, Singapore, Sumatra, and Java, and back again. Even now I am convinced that a lot of it needed have been still I’ll be able to tell you all about it. I was there. It is for that some of us may have a chance to see Blighty again this year, but I personally I’m not relying on it. In any case apart from home and all that I am not keen on a beerless and smokeless existence. Jiggling nerves, still, I guess I should jump at the chance even though my more before we got there. However, cheerio. Webber went overseas November 1938 and became an air gunner  watch serving on the North West frontier. In India, he is twice visited an uncle, one of four brothers, including his father, who were east of Suez in the early days of the last war. The last cable from the cobra stated that he was to be married in Bombay Cathedral on May 5th. 

 

; Bombay Wedding The wedding took place on Tues- day at St. John's Church, Colaba, Bombay, of Miss Daphne Kathleen Clyne, younger daughter of the late Mr. O. M. P. Clyne and Mrs. Clyne and the niece and adopted daugh- ter of Major and Mrs. F. W. Thorn- back, of Colaba, Bombay, and Mr. John Brian Warner, son of Major C. M. E. Warner, Port Health Offi- cer, Ballygunge, Calcutta, and the late Mrs, Warner. Reverend Rud- dell, the chaplain of Colaba, offic!- ated at the ceremony which was fully choral. Mr. C. E. Stanley act- ed as best man and Miss Jean Mil- ler and Miss Pauline Webber were the bridesmaids. The bride, who wore a gown of white slipper satin self floral de- sign, hand beaded down the front and on train, and a tulle veil with white violets, was given away by Major R. E. G. Webber, Mrs. Thorn- back wore a gown of mauve moss crepe with black accessories and Mrs. J. B. Webber, the bride's sis- ter, was dressed in a gown of china blue moss crepe with accessories. The bridesmaids' dresses were of pastel pink Swiss embroidered or- gandie muslin, with chiffon hats to match, trimmed with pink and niauve flowers. The honeymoon will be spent at Panchgani. The bride's travelling dress was of petal pink moss crepe with accessories. 

 

 BOMBAY WEDDING OF COLEFORD MAN The wedding was solemnised at St. Thomas' Cathedral, Bombay, of Mr John B. Webber, only son of Mr and Mrs J. G. Webber, of School House, Coleford, Bath, with Miss Edna May Clyne, eldest daughter of the late Mr and Mrs. M. P. Clyne and niece of Capt and Mrs F. W. Thornback, of Brady's Flats, Bombay. The bride wore a gown of white slipper satin and a tulle veil held in place with camelias, Miss P. Webber acted as brides- maid, and was dressed in blue georgette with a Juliette cap to match. The Rev. P. Stacy Waddy officiated, and the bride was given in marriage by Mr Maxwell-Jones. Major R. E. G. Webber, assistant A.R.P. Controller, was best man. The ceremony was followed by a reception at Major Webber's residence. The bridegroom had only recently returned from active service in Malaya, Sumatra, and Java. Major Webber uncle of the bridegroom, went out to the East with the Devon Regt. in 1914, and, after service in Mesopotamia, settled in Bombay.

 

 

 

There’s plenty of research to be done here its an interesting Album great wartime social history and  Bombay  Military  History item .