During the war he was in the Gunners and the Intelligence Corps. Gee married in 1949 and in 1950, he and his wife Olive moved to York where he opened the York office of the Royal Commission, of which he was head from 1950 to 1970. His work for the Commission involved extensive study of the medieval and later buildings of York, reflected in the first five published inventory volumes on the city, and his own publications. He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1954, and was an active member of the York Philosophical Society, Yorkshire Archaeological Society, and the Vernacular Architecture Group. He died on 16 June 1989.Obituary notice in Antiquaries Journal 70 (pt.2), 1990, p.519.
