| Above: Lieutenant Robert Andrew Woolley and wife in a photograph taken on the island of Mauritius sometime around 1870 while the 2nd Battalion of the 20th Regiment of Foot was stationed there. Woolley had a relatively short military career. Ensign by purchase - 22 August, 1865 Lieutenant by purchase - 17 March 1869 Retires as Lieutenant - 24 April 1872 On 21 February, 1871 Woolley was appointed Acting Aide-de-Camp to the Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Mauritius the Honorable Arthur Hamilton Gordon, C.M.G. Carte de Visite George Bitter - Photographer Mauritius, Indian Ocean c. 1870 |
| was posted to Cape Colony. Carte de Visite Grant & Kisch - Photographer Durban, Natal, South Africa c. 1867 |