Brief article teaser for a full article. It is about an older couple who met during WWII and dated, and presumably later married. The teaser also mentions they don their uniforms to tell stories of their war years to school children.Page mostly taken up with large colour photograph of an older man in a hat, an older woman in an army nurses uniform with two dogs sitting on a motocycle. Underneath photo is two column of text. wwii, world war two, mary gibson, lance gibson, army nurse, middle east

Mary Everard met Lance Gibson met in South Australia when Lance and a mate rang the local hospital to see if there were any off duty nurses who would go to the pictures with them. After several other outings the pair both ended up travelling on the Queen Elizabeth I to Egypt, Mary as nurse in the Australian Army Nursing Service and Lance as a lieutenant in the 2/3rd Australian Machine Gun Battalion. After spending much of the three week journey together, they continued to spend what free time they had together. When Lance found out he was to ship out to Indonesia in January 1942 the couple came to an understanding that they would marry after war. Several weeks after Lance's departure, Mary's unit returned to Australia on the Strathallen, where they nursed in hospitals in Queensland. Lance became a POW of the Japanese, one of the lucky 72 out of 257 Australians in his group to survive the war. Mary and Lance were married in November 1946 and now have three children and eight grandchildren.A large newspaper clipping featuring a large title, five columns of text and two black and white photos. One photo is of the face of a nurse in uniform, while the other photo is of a man in uniform.wwii, ww2, world war two, prisoner of war, mary gibson, gaza, middle east, sydney, concorde army hospital, brisbane, hughenden, darwin, atherton tablelands, java, dutch, cycle camp, singapore, japan, formosa, taiwan, nagasaki, american, korean, manchuria, ransom camp, govenor of singapore, russian, manila, red cross, vatican, nanneella