Story: Rowling, Wallace Edward

Army service

Army service

After a period on a Fulbright exchange fellowship in the United States, Bill Rowling returned to New Zealand with his young family in 1956. He joined the Army Education Corps and is pictured here in uniform in the late 1950s.

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Reference: John Henderson, Rowling: the man and the myth. Auckland: Australia and New Zealand Book Co. Ltd, 1981, between pp. 64-65.
Photograph by Paul Legg

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How to cite this page:

John Henderson. 'Rowling, Wallace Edward', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2010. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/6r1/rowling-wallace-edward (accessed 20 April 2024)