[citation needed] Drawings from this period depict scenes in northern France (including a 1916 study of one of the first tanks on the Somme)[9] and Italy.
For several years from 1924 he was in commercial partnership with the architects W J Kieffer and H S Fleming in London,[10] while retaining a strong interest in art education, notably architectural drawing.
Examples of his architectural drawings and other work are held in the V&A,[16] the RIBA Library,[17] the London Metropolitan Archive,[18] and public collections in Cheltenham and Dunedin.
W. M. Keesey, Inspector of Art Schools, Board of Education”, he was credited by the Bank of England for designing the foliage device on the back of the Series A £1 and 10-shilling notes, first issued in 1928.
In a similar style, for Trust Houses Ltd he contributed numerous illustrations for Tales of Old Inns: The History, Legend and Romance of Some of Our Older Hostelries (1927), the sketches being widely reused in other promotional literature and as postcards.
He also contributed to more substantial works, such as Industry and art education on the continent (1935) for HMSO, and a chapter on architectural drawing in Greenhalgh’s Modern Building Construction textbook (c. 1946).