COOK OR BARONET

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 306, 20 August 1932, Page 6

COOK OR BARONET

ARISTOCRATIC COOK FACES SERIOUS LINEAGE PKOBLEMS. PARENT MISSING. London, Saturday. "George Hugo Wilson Sherwood, M.C., ex-captain of the A.I.F." is receiving much publicity in the newspapers because of a romance with a London girl, whom he recently married. Although employed as a chef in a hotel at Frinton, Essex, Sherwood, when signing the marriage register, claimed that he was the son of a baronet, Sir Hugo Sherwood, of Wanda Park, near Melbourne. ' He said that ha was born in the gold diggings at Wanda and educated at Melbourne University. His parents opposed his enlisting, so he ran away and served as a private with the 45th Division, late) being commissioned. He opaned a hotel in Adelaide in 1929, but failed. owing to his partner absconding with . £1800. Awkward Questions. When Sherwood was told that the Austral'.an records contained no mention of an officer of such rank or-de-coration, he said: "Tha authorities must have overlooked me." Questioned as to the whareabouts of Wanda, he replied hesitatingly: "About 30 miles south-east of Melbourne." The Sun sought an explanation of why his father was not mentioned. in "Whitaker's Peerage and Barontage." He asked. "What's that?" The postal authorities in Melbourne have never heard of Wanda Park, and have no record of Sir Hugo Wilson or Sherwood.