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WikiProject Biography Summer 2007 Assessment Drive

The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Yamara 16:32, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]


His involvement with the Old Guard doesn't endear him to me, but I love this: "to the officer discreetly watching him test a wooden bench [Wootten] remarked: 'When you are my size, Hill, you sit with circumspection'."[1] Hehe. Grant | Talk 10:06, 21 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

And this from Frank Bell's Undercover University:

"[12 September 1945] We had a large parade to welcome Gen Wootten today. The first announcement that we heard was that he had arrived and was having his lunch on board ship. He had a good lunch too, I should say. He had the most prodigious stomach we have seen for many a long day. They say his weight is twenty-two stone."

One Wootten for every four ex-POWs at Batu Lintang! Jasper33 14:26, 21 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2008

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Article reassessed and graded as start class. --dashiellx (talk) 12:07, 5 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"Old Guard"

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It's the New Guard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Guard), not the Old Guard, and it wasn't formed by any government, conservative or otherwise. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 61.69.24.230 (talk) 20:54, 3 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

No, it was the Old Guard. Hawkeye7 (talk) 19:22, 4 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Please read up about Eric Campbell's New Guard! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 61.69.24.230 (talk) 08:45, 21 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]