army, navy and air force, a relatively rare distinction. Inter-war In many ways, it may be said that the war launched Paulin's career in that it was in the field of war memorials which he gained most fame. In 1919, he set up a studio in Buccleuch Street in Glasgow. He received many commissions for war memorials at this time, as may be expected of a competent sculptor of the human form. The first to bring him true "fame" was Kirkcudbright war memorial. This work lead to his commission to create major monuments in Flanders itself, most notably that to the 51st (Highland) Division sited in the Newfoundland's Field of Remembrance at Beaumont-Hamel. Then followed a memorial to the 8th Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders on a different site near Beaumont-Hamel. Perhaps his most noteworthy "international commission" at this time was the private family headstone (1920) on the grave of Andrew Carnegie in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery near New York City. This gives some indication of his international renown at the time. In 1920, he was elected a member of the Royal Scottish Academy. In 1927, he was elected a Member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors. In 1927, he was also appointed official representative of the Royal Scottish Academy in London, a post retained until 1957. In 1935, he was commissioned by the Royal Academy of Arts to create a series of 22 busts of eminent fellow artists. In the same year, he was elected Honorary Sculpture Member of the Royal Institution of Painters in Watercolours. In 1938, he rose to the rank of Fellow in the Royal Society of British Sculptors. Another major work of this period was a statue of "King Robert of Sicily" a fictional character created by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow which sits in Kibble Palace in Glasgow. Second World War In the Second World War, Paulin was rejected for active service, and, somewhat surprisingly perhaps, chose to work in a munitions factory in Glasgow, helping with precision engineering needs. Meanwhile, his London studio was destroyed in The Blitz. Latterly in the war, he is believed to have worked in the camouflage section. Post war In 1945, he received a commission from the United States Navy to create a monument to John Paul Jones the founder of the American Navy, in his home town of Kirkbean near Dumfries. This memorial forms a font in the church: