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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 256, 29 October 1929, Page 5

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GRAMMAR SCHOOL OLD BOY. LIEUTENANT H. G. WOOLLER. THREE YEARS' MILITARY TRAINING After spending three years in England, where he took a course at the Sandhurst Royal Military College, Lieutenant H. G. Wooller, an ex-Aucklander, returned this morning by the Ulimaroa from Sydney. Lieutenant Wooller will take up an appointment with the New Zealand Staff Corps. When he reached England, Lieutenant Wooller entered the Sandhurst College, spending eighteen months there, and he was later with the Buffs, the East Kent Regiment, which is one of England's leading infantry units. He was also with a school of musketry and a school of physical culture. Before he left for the Old Country, Lieutenant Wooller was a prominent Auckland athlete, having won the junior cup at the Auckland Grammar School. At Sandhurst he was a College Blue, and a member of the team which w'on the open army relay at Aldershot. On one occasion lie ran in a 440 yards race against Guy Butler, the Olympic champion, at Queen's Club. "After that racc," he said, "the King spoke to me, and I was surprised to find him so well informed in athletics. He talked to me for about ten minutes, and showed a keen interest and unexpected knowledge of running." In England, Lieutenant Wooller also rode in a number of point-to-point steeplechases, finishing second in the race between the Buffs and the Norfolk Regiment. «When he left England, the whole of the regular army was about to go into camp at Salisbury Plain. Manoeuvres under service conditions were to be carried out, with mimic warfare between infantry divisions and tanks corps. The army would probably stay at Salisbury for a month, under strict service conditions. "They would spend nights in ditches, sometimes have no change of clothing fo- days, and occasionally consider themselves lucky if they had two meals in three days," said Lieutenant Wooller. "When such manoeuvres are being practised, the men sometimes have to march thirty miles a day for three or four days."