page_title: George Wootten
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: George Wootten / Early life
caption_attribution_description: AWM caption&#160;: Ottoman Empire: Turkey, Gallipoli, Rest Gully. Captain George Frederick Wootten, Adjutant, 1st Battalion, having a shave at the entrance to his dugout on the Gallipoli Peninsula.
context_page_description: Major General Sir George Frederick Wootten, KBE, CB, DSO & Bar, ED was a senior Australian Army officer, public servant, right wing political activist and solicitor. He rose to the rank of temporary major general during the Second World War. Wootten earned the respect of his soldiers and superiors; General Douglas MacArthur described him as "the best soldier in the Australian Army who had it in him to reach the highest position". He was famous, in part, for his heavy build; he had given up smoking in 1930, and by 1941—even though he was 175 cm tall—he weighed 127 kg.
context_section_description: Wootten was born on 1 May 1893 in Marrickville, Sydney, Australia. He was the seventh child of English, London-born migrant parents, William Frederick Wootten (a carpenter and later a civil engineer) and Louisa Wootten, née Old. George Wootten attended Fort Street Model School in Sydney.
  He entered the Royal Military College, Duntroon, in 1911, and graduated in August 1914 as a lieutenant.
caption: "Rest Gully", Gallipoli. June 1915. Captain George Wootten, Adjutant, 1st Infantry Battalion, shaving at the entrance to his dugout.
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