WAR WEDDING TANGLES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19812, 2 December 1919, Page 9

WAR WEDDING TANGLES.

"Wnr marriages hare proved the very, devil anions oil;- buys." saivl an A list ra linn sergeant-major who in civil life is a farmer. "T am not surprised that many young women married to Dominion .soldiers are unable to locato their husbands now the war is over. "And the men are not entirely (o blame. Take my own battalion. J hnow of at least a, score of cases where the men lmvo married girls after a week's acquaintance, onl/ to le.a.m siibl.scqnently that the. wiva> thev had j sworn to love and cherish had deceived | them. Naturally they 'dodged tho column,' to iiso an Array phrase. !" There have been a good manv bigamous marriage*, but ther<L- again the girls themselves have- been largely to blame; they took marriage- as light- ! ly as an afternoon tea. , " The man returned to the front with no thought beyond fighting, arid th" wife stayed at homo with little thought beyond the separation allowance; and if they did meet again thev met almost as strangers. Such has been experience of men in my battalion." The sergeant-mnjoj' 1 ? t.'ovs r.-.-e to a largo extent borne out s>y the officials at. Horseferry Road, "Westminster. whcro_ every effort- is made to provide inquiring wives with information about their Australian husbands. The I'act« show that in many cases the wives know practically nothing about, tlveir husbands. Also then- i- :i pronounced dNinelinalion on the |):irt- of lOnglish wive.-, in proceed to Australia.