Honours of 1919. Later life After the war Woolley 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 vicar of Monk Sherborne, Hampshire, before moving on to the chaplaincy of Harrow School. In January 1940 Woolley resigned from the school and was commissioned into the Royal Army Chaplains' Department. He was appointed Senior Chaplain of the Algiers area in November 1942, reaching the rank of Chaplain to the Forces 3rd Class (Major). With several other officers he was appointed OBE in 1943 "in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in North Africa." His son Rollo, a Spitfire pilot, was posted to North Africa in the same month, and killed in early December 1942 in a battle over Tunis. Woolley took on the parish of St Mary's, Harrow on the Hill, in 1944. In 1952, finding it difficult to climb the hill, he resigned his commission and moved to be rector of West Grinstead, Sussex, where he stayed until he retired in 1958. Publications The Epic of the Mountains (verse), Blackwell, Oxford, 1929 Fear and Religion, Ernest Benn, London, 1930 A Journey to Palestine (verse), Blackwell, Oxford, 1935 A pocket-book of prayers for those on active service and for those at home, SCM Press, London, 1940 Sometimes a Soldier (autobiography), Ernest Benn, London, 1963 References WOOLLEY, Rev. Geoffrey Harold, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 External links Monuments to Courage (David Harvey, 1999) The Register of the Victoria Cross (This England, 1997) VCs of the First World War: The Western Front 1915 (Peter F. Batchelor & Christopher Matson, 1999) 1892 births 1968 deaths Burials in Sussex Military personnel from London People from Bethnal Green British World War I recipients of the Victoria Cross Queen Victoria's Rifles officers Officers of the Order of the British Empire Recipients of the Military Cross Royal Army Chaplains' Department officers 20th-century English Anglican priests British Army personnel of World War I British Army personnel of World War II People educated at St John's School, Leatherhead Alumni of The Queen's College, Oxford British Army recipients of the Victoria Cross People educated at Parmiter's School, London People from West Chiltington People from West Grinstead