Obviously any army had to have bootmakers, but I have discovered that one of my great uncles was an officer in the army. I would have thought this would have been a civilian occupation and wondered how he managed to become an officer.
For anyone who is interested, his name was Ernest Smith born in Capel, Surrey about 1863. In the 1891 census, he was in Lewes, Rottingdean as an officer. By 1901 he had married a Julia Ellen and was living in Horsham. I haven't found their marriage which presumably took place at sometime in the intervening 10 years. Was he still in the army and because of his rank had been allowed to marry, or had he left? I don't have the faintest idea about how to find these things out.
MTIA.
For anyone who is interested, his name was Ernest Smith born in Capel, Surrey about 1863. In the 1891 census, he was in Lewes, Rottingdean as an officer. By 1901 he had married a Julia Ellen and was living in Horsham. I haven't found their marriage which presumably took place at sometime in the intervening 10 years. Was he still in the army and because of his rank had been allowed to marry, or had he left? I don't have the faintest idea about how to find these things out.
MTIA.
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