No Longer Solo

In the midst of all this turmoil, my Grandparents decided to get married. There was one snag though, being under twenty-one, they needed permission from their parents to marry. Unfortunately, this was not forthcoming, so they "ran away" to St Albans and did the deed anyway! To his dying day, my Grandfather teased us that he was not legally married due to not getting the go-ahead from his father!

Howard Kelsey married Audrey Victoria Humphries in December 1940 at St. Albans register office. Their marriage was witnessed by two cleaners who happened to be working at the register office. They spent their wedding night visiting Howard's brother, Richard Kelsey, who was also in the RAF. They remained married for the next seventy-one years, until my Grandmother's death in 2011.