Was this marriage legal?

Question

I have just obtained the marriage certificate for a family member in 1939. The groom states that he is a Second Lieutenant in the Army, he also states that his Father was a Captain in the Royal fusiliers, in fact they were both just Privates. Would that invalidate the marriage?

Answer 1

No.  If the officiant was legitimate and the couple gave their legal names on the certificate, then it is legal.  Lying about his military rank does not make a marriage no longer legal.

Answer 2

yes its legal, my grandmother put a false name on her marriage certificate and a fake name on my fathers birth certificate!

it was close, she used the same first letters! but I got in contact with my council as when she died we put her fake name (as we thought it was her name) on her death, so I contacted them and asked if her marriahe and death are legal, they said yes, people in those days done stuff like that so yes its legal

Answer 3

Marriage is between the man and the woman.

Answer 4

How? What would their rank have anything to do with it?

Answer 5

Quite legal . I have come across a marriage cert where the groom was illegitimate and  to cover this fact gave a mother and father ( it was in Scotland where both parents are listed ) who were totally fictious . Did not effect the legality of the marriage .