| 1909 - c. 1911 | Correspondence courses in mechanics and engineering completed at the South Australian School of Mines and Industries |
| 1909 - c. 1911 | Tram conductor in Adelaide |
| 1913 - 1920 | Electrical Mechanic at the Postmaster-General's Department |
| 1920 - c.
1924 | Senior Mechanic with the Postmaster-General's Department at the Darwin Post Office |
| c. 1924 - | Returned to the Postmaster-General's Department in Adelaide |
| 1926 - | Foundation Member of the Anthropological Society of South Australia |
| 1935 - | Honorary Assistant in Ethnology at the South Australian Museum |
| 1935 | Anthropological expedition to the Warburton Range, Western Australia |
| 1935 | Secretary of a board of inquiry to investigate allegations of ill-treatment of Aborigines in the Northern Territory |
| 1937 | Anthropological expedition to the Nepabunna Mission in Flinders Ranges, South Australia |
| 1938 | Acting Ethnologist at the South Australian Museum |
| 1940 | Expedition from Ernabella to Ayers Rock to
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