Biographical Data
Beny, Wilfred Roy Roloff If you have images associated with this Person, please contact us at admin@nauticapedia.ca

 

Title	Ordinary Seaman (Officer Candidate UNTD) (RCNVR)
Official Number	(nk)

 

Birth	00/00/1924	Death	16/03/1984
Place	Medicine Hat	Place	Rome
Area	AB	Area
Country	Canada	Country	Italy

 

Titles
Honours	OC;
Awards	LLD (University of Lethbridge 1972);
Qualifications

 

Biography
He studied Fine Arts at the University of Toronto. He was already an accomplished photographer and painter in his teens, arriving in Toronto from the Banff School of Fine Arts. After two UNTD summers he graduated in the Spring of 1945 with a BA (Fine Arts). He went on to an MA (Fine Arts).

 

Military Service
He was appointed as an Ordinary Seaman (Officer Candidate UNTD) RCNVR 1943. In 1943-1945 he served in HMCS York for UNTD. (He was demobilized 1945.)

 

Vessels Owned
Aircraft Flown
Named Features

 

Anecdotes
His book of photographs; "To Every Thing There Is A season" was chosen by the Gov't of Canada as the Official Gift to visiting Heads of State during Centennial Year, 1967.

 

References
Bill Clearihue (Nominal List UNTD);
Last update
2014-11-11 06:54:35

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