[1] He started his teaching career as assistant master at Canberra Grammar School, which was postponed by the outbreak of World War II .
After returning from the Middle East, he volunteered to join militia units in Papua New Guinea, where he had been in support of Australian Brigadier Arnold William Potts.
[1] Once the war ended, he and his wife, Judy travelled to the United Kingdom, where he became a Latin and History teacher at Winchester College in Hampshire.
[1] After leaving Christ Church in 1981, he started to create lower-fee, co-educational, boarding, community-based Anglican schools.
[1] His influence stretched across South-East Asia, where he helped train school principals in the Philippines, Thailand and Malaysia.