Military Service
He was Aide-de-camp to the Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba, 1912-16. He entered the Royal Regiment of Artillery, in 1892. He was promoted to Captain in 1900. He was Garrison Adjutant in St. Lucia from 1902-05. He was Professor of Mathematics at The Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario from 1905-10. He was gazetted a brevet major in 1910.
On November 19, 1910, he received Royal License to use the title of Count in the British Realms.
He retired from the Royal Regiment of Artillery in 1911. He joined the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps in 1911. He was a Lieutenant-Colonel commanding a Canadian Field Artillery Brigade, Expeditionary Force during the First World War, and later became director of Canadian ordnance service in France during the First World War. He served as Director of Dominion Arsenals from 1920 to 1936. In 1936, he retired as a Colonel. He rejoined the army in 1940 and served as district ordnance officer for the duration of the Second World War and retired in 1946. He was awarded a C.B.E.. He was elected president of Royal Military College Club of Canada in 1913.
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