His father was killed in the First World War in 1918 and his mother, who was a sculptor, took her sons to England in 1923.
[3] He served in the Second World War on the Air Staff at Headquarters British Forces in Aden and as a pilot and instructor in the Western Desert before joining the Directorate of Plans at the Air Ministry.
[3] and later a member of the Joint Planning Staff at the Cabinet War Offices.
After the war he became Station Commander at RAF Stradishall and then Senior Air Staff Officer at Headquarters No.
[3] He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year Honours List in 1956.