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Edward Percy Aymer Des Graz, Rhona Felicia des Graz (née Lloyd Mostyn) and wedding party

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Edward Percy Aymer Des Graz, Rhona Felicia des Graz (née Lloyd Mostyn) and wedding party

by Lafayette
whole-plate film negative, 28 October 1929
Given by Pinewood Studios via Victoria and Albert Museum, 1989
Photographs Collection
NPG x184628

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Current affairs

The first election held under universal suffrage is a victory for Labour. Ramsay Macdonald returned for his second term as Prime Minster, and appointed Margaret Grace Bondfield as the first woman Cabinet Minister.

Art and science

Two classic books about the First World War are published: All Quiet on the Western Front, by war veteran, Erich Maria Remarque, tells of the horrors of war and the returning German soldiers' feelings of detachment from civilian life; while Robert Grave's autobiography Goodbye to All That, aimed to describe the author's experiences of the war so that they 'need never be thought about again'.

International

The 24th October 1929 becomes known as Black Thursday when the US Stock Exchange Collapses and millions are lost. The event was the start of the Wall Street Crash, which in turn contributed towards the Great Depression: a major international recession that lasted through most of the 1930s.

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Auriol Marchioness of Linlithgow

17 December 2016, 14:14

At the time of the photograph, was Geraldine Sandbach, was not Mackeson-Sandbach until October 1932

Geraldine Mackeson-Sandbach served as a magistrate on the Llanrwst bench from 1942 until 1979; as president of the juvenile bench she was understanding and even-handed. She was president of the Denbighshire Royal College of Midwives from 1955 until 1975; a member of the governing body of the Church in Wales from 1957 until 1967 and president for Wales of the Royal British Legion Women's Section from 1983 until her death.

Her service to the British Red Cross Society spanned almost 70 years; during the war this included work in hospitals, training nurses and the running of blood transfusion units.

Started the British red-cross detatchment of Denbigh 18 in the village of Llangernyw. Deputy President of Clwyd County.

1978-1980 London council member of B.R.C.S