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Haurongo: Rowling, Wallace Edward

Army service

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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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Fraser Books

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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John Henderson. 'Rowling, Wallace Edward', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 2010. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/27978/army-service (accessed 4 June 2026).