Colonel Waterhouse has served in the ranks of both Marines and Others. Serving as a Marine with the 5th Marine division in 1943/46 the GI bill provided the chance to study art at the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art class of 1950. Since the day of graduation, he has been an illustrator for national accounts and publications creating thousands of drawings and paintings for men's action magazines such as Argosy, Saga and others like the Legion, Outdoor Life and Readers Digest as well as books for a variety of publishers including Grosset Dunlap Hawthorne Colliers and Rutgers Press.

Membership in serveral prestigious art organizations, such as the Society of Illustrators and the Salma-gundi Club, resulted in invitations to participate in sketch tours for various Military Art programs while serving as official or combat artist in many parts of the world including three tours in South Vietnam.

These sketch tours gained the attention of HQ USMC. When the need for an historical painter came up for a Bicentennial project, he was commissioned a Major in the USMCR and brought on duty to paint a pictorial history of the Marines in the Revolution. So pleased with the high quality of his work, they invited him to stay on and paint other subjects and the cherished title of Artist in Residence USMC.

As does no artist of his time, he combines the experiences of Marine, historian, combat artist and illustrator. The crowning achievement of his creative life's work is a superb pictorial history of the Marine Corps.