Hi Caroline I presume you mean you wanted to check the marriage cert to see if the father was recorded as deceased I haven't come across it specifically but there were many societies and charities who gave aid to soldiers Is yours the one in the pension records on Ancestry ? There is a chance he was working for the Yorks Fund rather than just receiving funds from it Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > Hi I recently found marriage cert and I was looking to see if my great > grandfather Henry Lynn was still alive, on the marriage cert it says for his > occupation Yorks Fund? Does anyone know what that means? He was discharged > from 1st Worlds War in 1916 is that his pension?