Geoffrey Harold Woolley VC OBE MC (14 May 1892 – 10 December 1968) was the first Territorial Army officer to be awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. After the war he resumed the study of theology at Oxford, was ordained in December 1920, and took a teaching post at Rugby School. In 1923 he resigned his commission and became a parish vicar in Monk Sherbourne, Hampshire, before moving on to the chaplaincy of Harrow School.
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