I would be very surprised if there weren't marriage regulations for Army personnel. I was in the Royal Navy when I got married in 1974 aged 21 and had to write to ask the Captain's permission, using a formal letter style: "Sir I have have the honour to request permission to be married ..." At that time, this was something of a formal remnant of days gone by, and permission was readily granted. I never heard of a case when it wasn't. Ken Mlc1@aol.com wrote: >Hello Caroline, > >I wonder whether there were any regulations for Army personnel concerning >marriage? > >My reason for saying this is that my parents in law went through two >marriage ceremonies, first secretly, in 1933 in a Roman Catholic church, then again >in 1937 in a registry office. My father in law worked for the Bank of >Montreal in London and it was a condition of his employment that he did not marry >before he reached the age of 25. He would have been 24 when their first >marriage took place. Even my mother in law's parents were not aware of this marriage >for some time. > >The second marriage certificate gives their condition as bachelor and >spinster, and the marriage was about 6 months before their second child was born. >They always celebrated the anniversary of their first marriage and regarded >the second as a necessary formality. > >Just a thought, >Regards >Celia Cole > > > > > > > >