Career
At Fort Halstead he developed the Unrotated Projectile an antiaircraft weapon for the Royal Navy, used in the early period of World World War II when the supply of anti-aircraft guns was limited. His obituary in The Times called him a Rocket Projectile Pioneer. He was born in London, and educated at Queens" College, Cambridge.
In World War I he was commissioned in the East Surrey Regiment, was injured in 1916, MID. In 1917, he was appointed to the staff of the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich.
He was Director of Ballistics Research at Woolwich 1919-1939, Chief Superintendent of Projectile Development 1939-1940, then Director and Controller of Projectile Development 1940-1945, then Director of Guided Projectiles at the Ministry of Supply 1945-1946. He was in Washington, District of Columbia as Head of Technical Services to the British Joint Services Mission to Washington from 1946 to 1953.
