Captain Adrian H Gardner Beruit 1943

[ShaunJ]

And yet another marriage?  Adrian Hunter Gardner to Margaret Barrow Hogg or Edgar, Kirkcudbright, 1990

[alan o]

Oh dear it gets worse.

[AlanBoyd]

This matches the 1978 marriage I mentioned in reply #28 which was to Marion Gardner (not a mistake, a Gardner-Gardner marriage).

31 July 1990: The Scotsman

[ShaunJ]

A bit more of that Tonbridge School bio ... places him in the Middle East 1941-43...

"Cameronians , 1940 ; Lieut . , 1942 ; Capt . , 1943. U.K. , 1939–41 ; M.E.F. , 1941-2 ; C.M.F. , 1942-3 ; L.F.G. ..."

[Andy J2022]

The 2nd Battalion Cameronians served in Syria, Persia and Iraq as part of 13th Infantry Brigade, part of 5th Infantry Division, during 1942 and remained there up to around May/June 1943 when the Brigade was pulled out in order to prepare for the landings in Sicily in July 1943. It is possible that he was on the staff of HQ Persia-Iraq Command and so remained there long enough to get married in August 1943.

[AlanBoyd]

Just realised: his wife Marion died at the end of July 1990 and he remarried Margaret Barrow Hogg/Edgar that same year.

Added: a Margaret Barrow Gardner died 2001 aged 90. Registered in Nairn, which is quite a distance from Kirkcudbright or Castle Douglas.

[alan o]

A bit more of that Tonbridge School bio ... places him in the Middle East 1941-43...

"Cameronians , 1940 ; Lieut . , 1942 ; Capt . , 1943. U.K. , 1939–41 ; M.E.F. , 1941-2 ; C.M.F. , 1942-3 ; L.F.G. ..."

Well that confirms it that he is the Capt in the 1943 marraige.
many thanks

[alan o]

There was an officer by the name of Adrian Harry Austin Gardner (130040) in the Cameronians.  His substantive war rank was Lieutenant. Cashiered by sentence of court martial in February 1944.

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36431/supplement/1316

I had not realised that cashiered is more serious than straight dismissal so it would have been a more serious offence.

[AlanBoyd]

A summary of his marriages (so far?)

Ruth Pothecary m 1940, died 1994
Audrey Wright m 1943, died 1991
Marion Gardner m 1978, died 1990
Margaret Barrow m 1990, died 2001