He served with the Royal Engineers during World War II.
[1] He was an accomplished watercolourist and painter in oils, holding an exhibition of his works at a London gallery in 1978.
[1] An oil painting by him, Pigeon Loft, Sedgley, is held by Wolverhampton Art Gallery.
[1] Nikolaus Pevsner praised his work at Rubery and Redditch.
St Chad's Church, Rubery is described as being a fine Modernist example, and his crematorium at Redditch as a model example for that class of building.