Beddoe, Alan Brookman

After his naval service he was a Canadian artist, war artist, consultant in Heraldry and founder and first President of the Heraldry Society of Canada in 1965.

He contributed to the preliminary studies for the new Canadian flag.Beddoe was also an expert in heraldry.

In 1957, the Royal Canadian Navy appointed him its heraldic advisor and he was the first president of the Heraldry Society of Canada.

During World War I, he was captured at the Second Battle of Ypres in 1915 and spent two and half years in the prisoner of war camps at Gießen and Zerbst. (He was demobilized.) (He joined the RCNVR for Second World War service.) He was appointed as a Sub-Lieutenant (SB) (Special Services) (Temp.) RCNVR.

He was appointed as a Lieutenant (SB) (Special Services) (Temp.) RCNVR (With seniority dated 19/10/1942).

He served in NHQ. (The Royal Canadian Navy formed a Ships Badge Committee in 1942, and commissioned Beddoe to design official badges for the navy's ships.

He designed badges for over 180 ships and establishments of the Royal Canadian Navy.) (Transferred to RCN), He was appointed as a Lieutenant RCN. (He was demobilized.)