Background
WELLMAN., Distinguished Service Cross. was born on March 25, 1909 in Devonport, England. Son of Evan Wellman and Mary Hoare.
WELLMAN., Distinguished Service Cross. was born on March 25, 1909 in Devonport, England. Son of Evan Wellman and Mary Hoare.
Ilminster Grammar School, Canterbury University and Victoria University of Wellington.
Registered surveyor, New Zealand 1932. Gold-mining in South Westland and north-west Nelson 1933-1934. New Zealand Geological Survey, geophysics for gold 1934-1937.
Surveyor in a Shell search for oil.
Fly River swamp, New Guinea 1937-1938. New Zealand Geological Survey, geophysics and geology 1939-1955.
New Zealand East Coast oil search, British Petroleum Company 1955-1956. Senior Lecturer, Victoria
University of Wellington 1958, Association Professor 1963, Professor 1969, Professor Emeritus 1976.
Research geologist. Hector Memorial. Professional.
Married Joan East. Butler in 1939.