The system for proving marriages has been the same since the middle of 1837. A certified copy of the entry in the register can be obtained from the incumbent, the registrar of marriages if he was present and his register is not yet full, the synagogue secretary or registering officer of the Society of Friends (this one is unlikely to be of much use to a soldier), the authorised person with custody of the register (once he had been invented), the superintendent registrar if the register (from a registrar) or duplicate register (from one ot the other characters) has reached him and the General Register Office once it has produced its index for the period in question. If the soldier did not know that he could get a certificate much more cheaply, easily and legally than he could get another wedding, surely someone could have told him. There must have been married personnel around who knew something of the procedure. After all, many of those newly qualified by Lloyd-George for old-age pensions managed to get birth certificates seventy-odd years after the event. On the other current military matter, I do not suppose that I am the only one to have thought that if Iain Kerr were still alive, an answer would already have appeared with a paragraph or two of additional information. Jeremy Wilkes