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