A Port Isaac Wedding
Port Isaac girl, Ruby Marguerite Mitchell (b 30/05/1923) marries St Blazey Boy, Ernest Wallace George Studley (b 12/11/1913) in St Peter’s Church, Port Isaac on January 19th 1941.
George was serving on HMS Exeter when it was torpedoed during the Battle of the Java Seas on March 1st 1942. He was a Prisoner of War in Japan until August 1945, and he came home to Ruby in September 1945. Their first child, Richard, was born in 1946.