Aviation route planning pioneer + strategic survey and infrastructure development methods
Born in Launceston, Tasmania, he was educated at Launceston Grammar and Geelong Grammar schools. He served with the Australian Imperial Forces at Gallipoli in World War | and later, having transferred to the Australian Flying Corps, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. He surveyed a route between Darwin and Longreach, Queensland, for the 1919 Britain- Australia air race, and in the following year, with the bac…