Note: John had given up studies in commercial art to join the army and contacted Jean Ferguson while on leave from training at Greta. They fell in love and married at St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Newcastle in 1944. John saw service in India, Egypt And New Guinea from 1940-45 as a dispatch rider and while at war painted many watercolour scenes of his experiences. After the war he inherited part of his father's property at Berrigan, and returned to farming. They later retired to Albury. John continued to paint and also made models and steam engines. John died in Albury on 31.5.1998, aged 87.