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He wrote ''Sketches in the Soudan (sic)'' in 1885 and ''Rapid Field-Sketching and Reconnaissance'' and ''Advanced Guard and Outpost Duties for Riflemen'' in 1889. ''The First British Rifle Corps''. He wrote ''An historical account of the Rifle Brigade and of the King's Royal Rifle Corps'' in 1890 and ''Some Notes on Military Topography'' in 1891 and ''Map Reading and the Elements of Field Sketching'' in 1893. In 1894 his friend (Leonard) [[Howard Irby]] published ''The Ornithology of the Strait of Gibraltar'' and after he retired to [[Algeciras]] he wrote ''My Life among the Wild Birds in Spain. With illustrations'' in 1909.<ref name="amaz">[https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=sr_pg_3?rh=n%3A266239%2Cp_27%3AWilliam+Willoughby+Cole+Verner&page=3&ie=UTF8&qid=1358197377 William Willoughby Cole Verner], Amazon.co.uk, accessed January 2013</ref>
[[File:My_life_among_the_wild_birds_in_Spain_(1909)_(14748740684).jpg|thumb|left|Verner climbing down to a bird's nest on a cliff ledge]]
In 1911, Verner discovered [[Cueva de la Pileta]] in [[Benaoján]] and with [[Henri Breuil|Abbe Breuil]] also discovered [[Devil's Tower Cave]] in [[Gibraltar]].<ref name="devils cave">[http://underground-gibraltar.com/#/devils-tower-cave/4572552144 Devils Tower Cave], http://underground-gibraltar.com, accessed 22 February 2013</ref> Breuil had come to Spain because of Verner's reporting of ''Cueva de la Pileta'' near [[Ronda]]. Verner had been told of the cave that had been discovered by a Spanish farmer called ''José Bullón'' in 1905 who was looking for bat [[guano]]. Bullón had found human remains and markings on the walls, but assumed that they were made by the [[Moors]]. Verner had himself lowered into the cave and later reported his findings in the London-based [[Saturday Review (London)|''Saturday Review'']].<ref>[http://www.cuevadelapileta.org/textos_archivos/ingles/piletainter.html Cuerva de la Pieta], accessed 20 January 2013</ref> Verner wrote a number of weekly reports for the ''Review'' which factually described the cave, although Verner accounted for the drawings of extinct animals by assuming that they had been sketched a result of observing the fossil bones that were there. It was these reports that brought Breuil to Spain with [[Hugo Obermaier]], [[Paul Wernert]] and the Spaniard [[Juan Cabre Aquilo]]. Breuil stayed in Spain for two months studying the cave paintings whilst funded by the [[Prince of Monaco]].<ref name=lawson/> Verner later co-authored a scientific paper with Breuil and [[Obermaier]] on ''Cueva de la Pileta''.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Burkitt |first=M. C. |date=1922 |title=Col. Willoughby Verner
Verner wrote ''History and Campaigns of the Rifle Brigade'' in 1912.<ref name="amaz"/> In 1917 Breuil returned and he and Verner were warned off their next investigation of Devil's Tower Cave in Gibraltar by a local policeman (but not before they had retrieved some Neanderthal tools). Their final visit to the cave was in 1919 and they were convinced that this was [[Neanderthals of Gibraltar|another home to early man]] like the earlier finds at ''Cuerva de la Pieta'' and at [[Forbes' Quarry|Forbes' Quarry Cave]], [[Gibraltar 1]] had been found over fifty years earlier. Their confidence was confirmed when [[Gibraltar 2]] was found nearby in the early 1920s<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Garrod, D. A. E., Buxton, L. H. D., Elliot-Smith, G., Bate, D.M. A. |year=1928 |title=Excavation of a Mousterian rock-shelter at [[Devil's Tower, Gibraltar]] |journal=Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute |volume=58 |pages=33–113 | jstor=4619528}}</ref> by [[Dorothy Garrod]] who had come to investigate at Breuil's encouragement.
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