Word: hermer
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...Crossroads. In November, when the British Eighth Army began to roll into Libya, the Italians told Bennie Hermer to prepare to leave for a prison camp in Europe. That night he escaped, and next day he joined advance forces of Montgomery's army pushing toward Benghasi. The day Olda stepped out of the train at Cairo's main station, Bennie arrived at the Cairo hospital from Benghasi...
They fell in love in Johannesburg. Bennie Hermer was the young resident physician in Durban's King Edward VIII Hospital. Olda Mehr was a concert pianist, pretty, 18, with glowing black eyes. When she won the Royal Music Academy Award in 1938, she sailed for London, promising she would come back in a year to be married...
Back Home. When war came, Bennie Hermer had joined the South African forces and had been sent to the Middle East. In June 1942 he was captured at Tobruk. He was taken to Benghasi to assist Italians and Germans in hospital work. He wrote to Olda all the time. She received two letters, one from the prisoners' camp in Libya, the other marked "War Prison inf Italy...
Last week, in a Cairo newspaper: "Miss Olda Mehr and Captain Bennie Hermer of the South African Medical Corps announce their forthcoming marriage...