20th Century Grooms in Uniform: British and Commonwealth Wedding Photos

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Eswyn Lister Engish was one of the first war brides to arrive in Canada, when she married Stu Lister of one of the Canadian Highland Regiments.

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Unknown couple in Leeds.

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Ernie and Joan Howe  in Cambridge.

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Another military couple,  Harvey Maclean Jean Morley Royal Canadian Navy

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An English bride named Doris  married a Canadian Soldier who lost his leg, no other info.

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Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire and Andrew Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire in 1941. Cavendish is in the 2nd Battalion  Coldstream Guards, he sees action in North Africa and Italy. 

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Glen Elliot another Canadian in Scotland 1940 on his wedding day, bride named  Cathie.

 

 

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 Pilot Officer Allen Dunlop Royal New Zealand Air Force with his British War Bride Claire.

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Unknown British Service couple on the wedding day, groom is a Artilleryman.

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Corporal Paul Dumaine was in 1942 engaged to a English girl named Joan, but Dumaine was in on the Dieppe Operation and was captured, here they are after the war back in England on their wedding day.

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Here's one interestingly from the Korean War. A U.S. GI we see as a guest off to the right, probably in Japan.

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Sergeant Harry Creagen with his bride Matsuko and son Michael on the front of the Toronto Daily Star after arriving at Union Station in Toronto in June 1955. The couple were married for 43 years before the veteran of two wars died in 1997.

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Bill and Takako Watts married in 1949 .The Australian Watts, a Sergeant at the time, evidently a veteran of the Pacific War at least, not sure if he was in Africa or say Palestine or the Levant beforehand.

 

 

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Bill and Takako Watts married in 1949 .The Australian Watts, a Sergeant at the time, evidently a veteran of the Pacific War at least, not sure if he was in Africa or say Palestine or the Levant beforehand.

 

 

Bill Watts and Takako had two children by the time they returned to Australia in 1953, they would have five more, a total of seven kids.

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Canadian Ralph Lloyd  and his English girlfriend Doris in a studio portrait taken before their wedding in December 1941. Lloyd is a Musican in The Carleton and York Regiment 1st Canadian Division.

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A Rate gets married, Summer 1940.

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An RAF Wedding.

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Arthur and Margaret Houghton wedding day in 1945 in England, she's English, he is as we see Canadian. he was in the 7th Anti Tank Regiment, a Gunner, 7th Anti Tank Regiment was a Canadian I Corps Troop Unit.

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Cecil Nixon  and Ida married in May 1944 in North London. Cecil was an electrical engineer officer in the Royal Navy

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The wedding of Captain Leonard Johnson of the 4th Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery and his new wife Josephine de Vries at the Pepergasthuis Church in Groningen, Netherlands. June 30, 1945

 

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Australians, Dennis and Margaret Davis wedding day in 1943, He was in the 9th Division Africa and New Guinea.

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Canadian Mickey Heller Bomber crewman  in 1944 married back in Canada.