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entertaining. As subalterns we played against each other in the annual dog fights between sappers and gunners at hockey, squash and golf. He always beat me, except sometimes at hockey where other people were involved. In later life he became an extremely good golfer, one of the best in the country for his age. For many years he was the backbone of the
Wellington golf team in the Halford Hewitt. In the 1972 meeting he holed out the first nine holes of the Red Course at the Berkshire in 31 strokes, at the age of 61.
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Cole was born in
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339:References
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323:Lt.-Gen.
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