In 1916 he joined the Royal Naval Air Service and attended flight school in Florida.

10 Naval Squadron as a flight commander and he scored four more victories, now flying the Sopwith Triplane.

[2] After the war he worked for the Air Board until April 1922 and in 1923 he owned and operated an automobile dealership in Victoria, British Columbia.

This officer has at all times led his patrols with great courage, skill and pertinacity, often engaging superior numbers of hostile aircraft.

On 22 July 1917, he engaged, single-handed for half an hour, five enemy scouts which he prevented from carrying out a reconnaissance.