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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 50, 22 November 1941, Page 9

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Coningham Was Good Shot At Wellington College

Lieutenant-Colonel R. St. J. Beere and Wellington group officers, with Mr. T. Brodie, acting bandmaster, and Mr. L. McKenzie, representing the Board of College Governors, were present at a full parade of cadets on the Wellington College grounds yesterday when the shooting prizes won during the year were presented. It is interesting to note, that on one of the contest cups appears the name of Arthur Coningham, the present Vice-Air Marshal of the British Forces in the Middle East, who won the trophy iu the year 1911. Mr. Brodie, who was a junior master at the time, says that Coningham was always keenly interested in the college cadets, and was a good rifle shot. He was a lad witli a lively sense of humour, a characteristic which would no doubt stand him iu good stead in dealing with those under him from England, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand. One of the present college musters, Mr. James Caddie, was a classmate of Coningliaui’s and also remembers him well. Wellington College is pardonably proud that two of the leaders of the forces in tiie Middle East, . MajorGeneral Freyberg and Vice-Air Marshal Coningham, should be old boys of tiie college.