GRAFTON FORWARD NOW AN OFFICER.
FORMER Grafton footballer, Charlie Passmore wrote his parents from Kgypt last monf.h fo announce that lie had obtained commissioned rank after a term with the Officers' Training Corps, and incidentally that he has passed top in the examination. At tho Auckland Grammar School, where he was a sergeant-major in the school cadets, Passmore was awarded in 1034 the Robert Friar Memorial prize for the most efficient cadet K.C'.O. in the Northern Command. Generally he took a leading part in the school life, being heavy-weight boxing champion and captain of the (ir>t fifteen. Promotion came quickly for him when he joined up with the First Echelon, in his letter enclosed an account, of a Rugbv match in which the officers' training unit team defeated the medical corps team by 21 points to nil after four previous matches had ended with two wins each. Passmore was described as the !>est forward on the ground, scoring three tries and converting three. Another Aueklander mentioned in the winning side is A. Mcßeath (Grammar Old Boys), who, as hooker, got the ball in nearly all the scrums.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 86, 12 April 1941, Page 4 (Supplement)
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187GRAFTON FORWARD NOW AN OFFICER. Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 86, 12 April 1941, Page 4 (Supplement)
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