He was acting on behalf of Vivian Fox-Strangways, who had been appointed as Resident Commissioner, but because of the Pacific War, Fox-Strangways was seconded into the army and was located on Tulagi in the British Solomon Islands.
[3][4] While he had the opportunity to leave Ocean Island when the personnel of the British Phosphate Commission were evacuated,[5] he choose to stay to safeguard the people of Ocean Island.
[1] Japanese forces occupied Ocean Island on 26 August 1942.
[1] He is named on the memorial inscriptions in Chapel Passage, East Wall of Balliol College, Oxford.
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