Biographie
He came to Canada in 1929.
He served in the Royal Navy and the Royal Canadian Navy.
He retired to Victoria where he pursued a career in water colour painting, specializing in scenes of Vancouver Island and the lower Mainland of British Columbia in the 1970s.
He studied under Henri Masson in Ottawa and Sonya Mervyn and Marcel Godfrey in London UK.
He later studied under Charles Trottier of Halifax NS and Herbert Seibner of Victoria BC.
He exhibited his art in several countries before his career was prematurely cut short by crippling arthritis.
Service militaire
He was appointed as a Sub-Lieutenant (E) RN.
He was appointed as a Lieutenant (E) RN.
He was appointed as a Lieutenant-Commander (E) (Temp.) RN. (Transferred to RCN).
He was appointed as a Lieutenant-Commander (E) RCN (With seniority dated 01/01/1942).
He served in NHQ.
He was appointed as a Commander (E) RCN (With seniority dated 01/07/1949).
In 1955 he served in the Canadian Joint Liaison Staff London.
He served in NHQ.
He was appointed as a Captain (E) RCN.
In 1958 he served as Command Technical Officer Esquimalt. (He was released.)
Références
Government of Canada The Canadian Navy List Ottawa ON
