He was an athletic youth and fought in the British Army during WWII, in the North Africa Campaign as a tank driver.
[1] He returned to South Africa after the war and set up a business as a Certified Public Accountant.
[5] According to newspaper articles in the early to mid-eighties, he divided his time between his summer residence in Hampstead, and his winter home in Palm Springs.
He is listed in the 1958[6] and 59[7] Royal Academy brochures as living in St John's Wood, London, before his permanent UK residency.
One of his paintings is in the collection of the Glasgow Museums titled Knight and Squire[8] He died in 1998.