In the Second World War he served in the British Army, where he was captured in 1942 during the North African Campaign.
In internment camps in Italy and Germany he lectured accounting and economics until his release in April 1945.
[2] On invitation of his undergraduate teacher Arnold Plant, Solomons started his academic career at the London School of Economics in 1946 as part-time lecturer.
After the death of Stanley W. Rowland in 1947 he work full-time, and was appointed reader in accounting in 1948.
He worked under William T. Baxter, who was appointed the first full-time professor of accounting in the UK in the same year.