With time on my hands, Google has aided my research. While I can’t immediately determine the ultimate fate of the serviceman in 1944, there’s more information about Annie Ratcliffe. And even a poem. 

She met her sweetheart, and quite free from alarms,

With him she went in The Sir Walter Scott Arms.

And in a short time, as the facts do appear,

The girl’s throat he severed from ear to ear

That’s her (she was only 16) on the right. And him on the left.