Can anyone narrow down date of this Q2 1926 marriage in London?

[Jool]

It was still going on in August 1942 

[nicdigby]

where / what source please?

[Jool]

I'm using the newspapers on Findmypast.  I typed in Sidney James Digby - nothing else - and got 62 hits between 1937 and 1942 on the Merle Oberon case, 9 of them from 1942.  Many are versions from different newspapers throughout the country.

[crisane]

Mary Ann Digby nee Curd is on the 1939 register with her parents and brother? Marital status - Married

[Ladyhawk]

Five Years later

Chauffeur wins Merle Oberon Action

Publication date   6 August 1942
Nottingham Evening Post

[nicdigby]

Mary Ann Digby nee Curd is on the 1939 register with her parents and brother? Marital status - Married

yes - not at the address where her husband was living separately

[nicdigby]

I'm using the newspapers on Findmypast.  I typed in Sidney James Digby - nothing else - and got 62 hits between 1937 and 1942 on the Merle Oberon case, 9 of them from 1942.  Many are versions from different newspapers throughout the country.

I have a FindMyPast basic subs but it won't let me see the 62.

I have newspaper.com subs and the story went international. Not much detail though.

Does anyone know how to use newspapers.com properly please? If I put in Sidney James Digby it brings up any newspaper that has any of those words. If I put "Sidney James Digby" in quotation marks it brings up 3 in England. Yet FindMyPast brings up 62 (but doesn't let me actually view the details).

[nicdigby]

Also - can anyone see if he was in WW2 at all? I can see he was conscripted into WW1 when he came of age in 1917 but cannot see anything for WW2. He would have been 39 by then.

[Jool]

Maybe Newspapers.com don't have many of the UK newspapers for that time.

Here's one of the 1942 reports