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Member Since: March 2005 Posts: 334 Send Message	Rebecca	Report	12 Jun 2007 22:40
Member Since: March 2005 Posts: 334 Send Message	I guess it depends on what you mean by posted abroad. Do you mean that he was posted somewhere for a while to be based somewhere or if he was sent there as part of a tour which could be weeks or months?
Member Since: March 2006 Posts: 5 866 Send Message	Lady Cutie	Report	12 Jun 2007 20:48
Member Since: March 2006 Posts: 5 866 Send Message	Hi Kathleen, i just got his marriage cert a couple of days ago it says he was a soldier and residing at Royal Herbert Hospital Woolwich Hazelx
Member Since: November 2003 Posts: 28 261 Send Message	KathleenBell	Report	12 Jun 2007 20:42
	I may be wrong, but I wouldn't have thought that she would go with him, unless he was high ranking. You could try to buy his service records (or his next of kin could) - that's if you know which regiment he was in and his service number (it may be on his marriage certificate). Kath. x
Member Since: March 2006 Posts: 5 866 Send Message	Lady Cutie	Report	12 Jun 2007 20:38
Member Since: March 2006 Posts: 5 866 Send Message	was in the army in 1926 when he married , if he was posted abroad would his wife have gone with him do you think, or didnt wives go with their husbands then and is there any way to find out if he was posted abroad Thanks Hazel