Joan Hunter Dunn the engagement is sheer fantasy, but my life was very like the poem." She married Harold Wycliffe Jackson, a civil servant in the Ministry of Information, in January 1945, at St Mark's Church in Farnborough. Betjeman was invited, but was unable to attend. The poem was republished in Betjeman's book "New Bats in Old Belfries" in 1945, and was later mentioned in Flanders and Swann's "Tried by Centre Court". Joan Jackson accompanied her husband to Malaya after the war, where he ran a radio station. They then lived in Singapore, before returning to the UK in 1957. Harold worked for
Allan Hunter (rugby union) been an inaugural member of the club in 1974 and its president from 1981 to 1982. He also wrote an account of the First Battalion Canterbury Regiment's coastal defence duties during World War II, published in 2000 and titled "The Young Defenders". In the 2005 Queen's Birthday Honours, Hunter was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to education and the community. Hunter's wife, Joan, died in 2002. Hunter himself died in Christchurch on 12 July 2017. Allan Hunter (rugby union) Allan Douglas Hunter (23 September 1922 – 12 July 2017) was a New Zealand