[3] In 1927 he was apprenticed to James Theodore Halliday in Manchester[4] for several months, before moving to work with Francis Jones as assistant, between 1927 and 1928.
[3] The following year, Gleave was appointed to Edinburgh College of Art as a senior assistant.
[3] During the war, he was assigned to the Anti-Aircraft Command and reached the rank of lieutenant colonel.
[3] After he returned to the department in 1946, he spent a year redesigning the Columbus Memorial and working on Renfrew Airport along with his brother-in-law, the Scottish architect William Kininmonth.
[3] He would go on to join his father's old practice in 1987 that changing name as partners came and went and time went on, eventually becoming Young & Gault.