Personal History
Wilf Wooller was married twice, firstly to Gillian Windsor-Clive, an unsuccessful wartime marriage that was dissolved in 1946, and later in 1948, to Enid James. The couple had five children. Wooller survived incarceration by the Japanese in the Changi prisoner of war camp in Singapore during the Second World War. He was a successful BBC broadcaster and "Sunday Telegraph" sports journalist.
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