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Edward enlisted with the Royal Army Service Corps at the outbreak of World
War I. After recieving his commission to Lieutenant in 1915, he was sent
out to France in December of the same year. Prior to going off on active
service, Edward married Miss Hilda Madeleine Sampey. Hilda was born in
Greetham, Rutland in 1889 and was 26 at the time of her marriage. Both
were well-liked local gures and their wedding attracted much interest, with
the local paper publishing a big article on the wedding:
Melton Mowbray Times & Vale of Belvoir Gazette,
Friday July 23rd 1915
“MELTON AND THE WAR.” – KHAKI WEDDING AT MELTON. LIEUT.
LOVEGROVE AND MISS HILDA SAMPEY.
:Much local interest was evinced in a khaki wedding solemnised
yesterday morning at St Mary’s Parish Church, Melton Mowbray, the
bride and bridegroom both being well-known and highly respected. The
bridegroom was Lieut. Edward Tyler Lovegrove of the Army Service
Corps, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Lovegrove, “Darenth,” Sutton
Coldeld, and the bride, Miss Hilda Madeleine Sampey, younger
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Sampey, “Stoneleigh,” Burton Road
Melton Mowbray. The Rev. Canon Blakeney M.A., Vicar of Melton
Mowbray, and Rural Dean, performed the ceremony, which was choral,
the choir rendering the hymns “Lead us Heavenly Father lead us,” and “O
perfect love.” Sir Malcolm Sargeant, Mus. Bac., ofciated at the organ,
and played suitable voluntaries, including Mendelssohn’s “Wedding
March” after the signing of the register. The bride looked very becoming
in a beautifully made costume of ivory box cloth, with hat ensuite,
trimmed with white roses, a lace veil draping the crown and owing at
the back. She carried a shower bouquet of white roses and lilies, tied