Bridal shop's support for injured soldier's wedding
Published Date:
18 July 2008
By by Annemarie Field
AN EASTBOURNE bridal shop showed its support for the troops by providing bridal outfits free of charge for the high profile wedding between a badly burned soldier and his bride this week.
The Fitting Room in Meads Street, Eastbourne, contacted Lance Corporal Martyn Compton and his bride-to-be Michelle Clifford after a television news report revealed how the couple were battling for military compensation after Martyn was badly burned in a Taliban ambush in Afghanistan in August 2006.
He lost his ears, nose, hair, suffered 70 per cent burns, broke his arm, had a bullet in his leg and was in a coma for three months after the attack in Helmand Province.
Janet Nutall, Katie O'Neill and Grainne Derry-Bates at the Fitting Rooms offered to make Michelle's wedding dress free of charge along with Martyn's waistcoat, tie and bandanna.
Etiquette Formal Hire provided suits without charge.
Katie said, "We watched him on the television and we were so moved. We rang the BBC and offered to make Michelle's wedding dress as a way of saying 'We are behind what our soldiers are doing out there'.
"Michelle got in touch and they came to see us and we made her wedding dress and Martyn's outfit. They are really lovely, amazing people."
The couple, who live just outside Hastings, were married in Kent at the weekend and their story appeared in many of the national newspapers.
annemarie.field@trbeckett.co.uk
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18 July 2008 10:50 AM
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