Arthur Horner (other)
Arthur Horner may refer to: *Arthur Horner (cartoonist) (1916–1997), Australian cartoonist *Arthur Horner (trade unionist) Arthur Lewis Horner (5 April 1894 – 4 September 1968) was a Welsh trade union leader and communist politician. During his periods of office as President of the South Wales Miners Federation (SWMF) from 1936, and as General Secretary of the N ...

Arthur Horner (cartoonist)
Arthur Horner (10 May 1916 – 25 January 1997) was an Australian cartoonist, active for much of his working life in Britain, and best known for the comic strip ''Colonel Pewter''. Biography Arthur Wakefield Horner was born in Melbourne and lived in the suburb of Malvern until his family moved to Sydney in 1930. Here he attended Sydney Boys High School, becoming school captain in 1933. Horner trained at Sydney's National Art School during which time he made money acting in radio drama as well as working for magazines such as ''Smith's Weekly'', ''The Bulletin'' and the ''ABC Weekly''. He enlisted to fight in the Second World War in 1940, serving firstly as a camouflage officer in Dutch New Guinea and then as history officer in the 9th Division of the A. I. F. in British Borneo. Travelling to Europe in 1947, he worked in railway construction in Yugoslavia and also worked in Prague. In London, he attended the Central School for Arts and Crafts (now the Central School of Art and ...
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