Captain Adrian H Gardner Beruit 1943

[tonepad]

Does the newspaper notice state that Captain Adrian H Gardner was in the British Army?
Australian or another allied army is a possibility.


Tony

[alan o]

Tony

A very good point.  I have searched the Army List for 1944 and there is no AH Gardner there.  Beruit was bit of a military backwater in 1943 so he could have been a colonial.

Alan

[alan o]

No record of him in the Australian WW2 archives.

[alan o]

Find my past have her marraige record showing as her as MELF and British Forces.  If he was from the UK then I  think the record would be for him as well.

It appears that she was British Military but perhaps he was not.

[cath151]

There is the following possibility?
https://www.electricscotland.com/webclans/minibios/g/gardner_adrian.htm

Cathy

[alan o]

Adrian is on the MELF marraige list so was a British Officer and not colonial.

[alan o]

There is the following possibility?
https://www.electricscotland.com/webclans/minibios/g/gardner_adrian.htm

Cathy

Quite possible.  Now I need to find out where he was in 1943.

[alan o]

I have ruled him out as family believe his middle name was Harry not Hunter.

[Ellenmai]

What about buying the marriage certificate as it's on the GRO Marriage Index Army Marriages (1881 to 1955)Ref Arm 2, Page 432, Line 19, General Register Office. Record set British Armed Forces & Overseas Banns & marriages. It does say he is part of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force. As for Audrey Evelyn Wright she was a passenger on the Godfrey B Holt from Liverpool to Syria sailed 16th April 1942 Occupation Civil Servant, last address 28 Harcourt Terrace SW10. There was another Civil Servant called Maureen Olive Caulfield heading for Syria at the same time.