From Burma to Selsey: Couple prepare to celebrate 70 years of marriage

By The Newsroom
Published 12th Oct 2018, 09:11 BST
Updated 12th Oct 2018, 13:15 BST
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After meeting in 1944 during The Burma Campaign, thousands of miles away from home, Selsey residents Basil and Madge Lambert will celebrate 70 years of marriage on Tuesday.

It was love at first sight when Madge, a 21-year-old nurse working in a Burmese hospital, met Basil, a young soldier fighting the Japanese in the Second World War.

Now both 95 years of age, and seven months after their love story was released in the form of a book, Basil and Madge have revealed the key behind such a long marriage.

Madge said: “We have just taken each day as it comes.

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