Retired Quantity Surveyor, read contract law and was a Foundation Member of the New Zealand Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators. Served 25 years in the RNZIR, retired as a Substantive Major. Keen hunter and shooter and currently an Arms Dealer.
On April 25, at about 16:40, the Russian forces struck the railway station in Balakleya in the Izyum district of the Kharkiv region