He served as a naval officer throughout the war and was known for engaging with enemy coastal convoys off France, and twice mentioned in dispatches.
[1] In 1944, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross (DSC) for 15 successive actions during the Normandy landings.
[2] In 1937, he held his first solo show in Quebec City and in the same year, joined the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps as Lieutenant.
In 1940, he transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve and sailed for England, where he served on ships before joining the Motor Torpedo Boat Command and later becoming the commander of the 29th Canadian Motor Torpedo Boat Flotilla of the Royal Navy at Dover, which was stationed along the English Channel.
[2] He was involved in the action against the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau in 1942 which he depicted in paint (Canadian War Museum).
[5] He held three solo shows in 1950 and 1951 in Ottawa, before taking up his duties of first Lieutenant-Commander aboard an aircraft carrier, then in 1955 he became second-in-command of an Arctic patrol ship.
[5] In 1989, he had published a book about the Motor Torpedo Boat Flotilla, titled White Plumes Astern: Short Daring Life of Canada's Motor Torpedo Boat Flotilla (Nimbus Publishing Ltd, Halifax, 1989 ISBN 10: 0921054270ISBN 13: 9780921054276).