[2] Sir Roland was educated at Geelong College and the Adelaide Shorthand and Business Training Academy, of which his father was a generous patron.
[3] Roland (who had been 2nd Lieutenant with the 16th Australian Light Horse Regiment a few years previously)[4] volunteered for active service during the First World War, but was rejected as unfit and instead served as a training officer in Adelaide.
[5] In July 1948 he was appointed to the board of the South Australian Brewing Company, and promptly elected managing director then chairman in 1951, which he retained until March 1965.
He was a member of the Adelaide Festival of Arts board of governors, the National council of the Australian Boy Scouts Association, boards of the Royal Adelaide Hospital and Queen Elizabeth Hospital and vice-president of the SA branch of the National Heart Foundation.
[6] They had three children: He married Esther "Ess" Cook (née Solomon) MBE (6 April 1900 – 27 January 1991) on 30 November 1970.