[1] In 1908 he served as official artist for Flinders Petrie's archaeological expedition to Egypt and moved to Adelaide, South Australia in 1910 or 1911, and joined the staff of the South Australian School of Art under J. Christie Wright, then in 1916 served as his replacement when he went off to war.
[1] He enlisted in April 1918 and served as an official War Artist, in the same unit as Web Gilbert and Louis McCubbin.
He returned to Adelaide and for a time worked for publishers Tyrrell's Ltd., then in August 1921 was appointed by Edith Napier Birks as founding painting master of the School of Fine Arts, North Adelaide.
[3] He was a member of the South Australian Society of Arts, but quite critical of a section of its membership.
Britton is represented in the following collections: He married Annie "Nance" Russell in 1912; they had one daughter Zara.