BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS  

Sydney Harrington Balfour

1895 - 1941

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Sydney H. Balfour was born in Surrey, England, and served in the British Royal Navy in World War One. After arriving in BC he married Doreen Isabella Mary Grant in Oak Bay on June 7, 1932. The marriage certificate noted his employment as "company secretary."

He exhibited work at the Vancouver Art Gallery in the annual B.C. Artists exhibitions in 1935, 1937 and 1939.

He enlisted in the British Navy again at the start of World War Two. He was killed in a naval battle in the Mediterranean, when the cruiser Southampton was damaged and sunk. He held the rank of Lieutenant-Commander, and his brother was Captain Harold Balfour, British Undersecretary of State for Air.

An obituary article noted that he had won the Croix de Guerre while acting as liaison officer with French forces at the fall of Narvik in 1940, for "standing firm and resolute under very heavy bombardment and advancing under heavy firing."

Exhibitions

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
DATE EXHIBITION LOCATION

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
DATE EXHIBITION ARTWORK
1935 Sept. 20 - Oct. 15 VAG   B.C. Artists 4th Annual Tyax Lake
Mount Ferguson
1937 Sept. 17 - Oct. 10 VAG   B.C. Artists 6th Annual The Road to the Farm
Boundary Bay
1939 Sept. 15 - Oct. 8 VAG   B.C. Artists 8th Annual Mouth of Oyster River

References

"B.C. NAVAL MAN KILLED IN BATTLE"
     News item by CP dated January 16 1941

B.C. VITAL STATISTICS ON-LINE marriage (refer to BCVS)

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