On 06/12/14 12:19, David Marshall wrote: > In January 1883 Corporal Booth of the Grenadier Guards married Elizabeth > Bennett from Ireland in Clewer Berks. The marriage was correctly noted > in his Army records. > However on the civil marriage certificate his only occupation was given > as lacemaker, which was indeed his occupation before and after his > military service. > On other marriage certificates for military personnel that I have seen > (admittedly mainly in the 20th century) the serviceman's rank and number > are recorded. > Can anyone suggest if this case is unusual, or what might be an > explanation? Simple. That's what he told the vicar. -- Ian The Hotmail address is my spam-bin. Real mail address is iang at austonley org uk

On Sat, 06 Dec 2014 17:06:14 +0000, Ian Goddard <[email protected]> wrote: >On 06/12/14 12:19, David Marshall wrote: >> In January 1883 Corporal Booth of the Grenadier Guards married Elizabeth >> Bennett from Ireland in Clewer Berks. The marriage was correctly noted >> in his Army records. >> However on the civil marriage certificate his only occupation was given >> as lacemaker, which was indeed his occupation before and after his >> military service. >> On other marriage certificates for military personnel that I have seen >> (admittedly mainly in the 20th century) the serviceman's rank and number >> are recorded. >> Can anyone suggest if this case is unusual, or what might be an >> explanation? > >Simple. That's what he told the vicar. > The name, rank and number bit IME is something of a WW2 thing; earlier 20th century records mentioning someone's then current military service tended just to mention rank and regiment for full time soldiers while in WW1 the occupation as often as not would give the "day job".