'You don't forget': Fledgling romance was cut short by war, but the memories remain
RICKY WILSON/Stuff Sando was in the WAAC during World War II and for a couple of years in the early 1950s. Sando joined the WAAC as an 18-year-old in July 1942. She was posted to the Northern Military District School of Instruction at Narrow Neck, on Auckland's North Shore, in the dental section. McGruther (Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Hikairo) was eight years her senior. He had been head boy at King's College, and played in the school’s First XV rugby team. Supplied Jock McGruther (seated, second from right) was head boy during his time at King’s College.