Background
Wetjen, Albert Richard was born on August 20, 1900 in London, England. Son of Daniel Dietrich and Lillian (Llyddon) Wetjen.
Wetjen, Albert Richard was born on August 20, 1900 in London, England. Son of Daniel Dietrich and Lillian (Llyddon) Wetjen.
Educated Council School, London, 1904-1913.
Went to sea, 1914; twice shipwrecked. Member of crew that took sultan of Zanzibar as prisoner of war to Saint Helena. Served in Manchester Regiment, British Army, 1918.
Sailed to Africa, 1919.
Emigrated to Canada, 1920. Tramped into United States, 1921.
Correspondent for Oregon newspapers, 1922, then verse and stort story writer Traveled in Europe, 1924-1925.
Editor Oregon Magazine, 1925-1928.
Deckhand on freighter around South. America, 1928. Worked in motion picture studios, 1930. Traveled Australia, New Zealand and South Seas, 1936.
Member of crew that took sultan of Zanzibar as prisoner of war to Saint Helena. Member.; Member United Seamen’s Service.
Married Edith Cecelia Eisenbrandt, April.