[6] He was firstly enrolled at Bishop's College School in Quebec, Canada from 1889 to 1891 and attended their cadet corps.

[9] He saw action in South Africa as adjutant with the Composite Regiment of Mounted Infantry during the Second Boer War for which he was appointed a companion of the Distinguished Service Order.

[16] He went on to be Deputy Chief of the General Staff, India in 1922[16] and was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1925 Birthday Honours.

[19] At the start of the Second World War was recalled to service as Inspector & Chief Liaison Officer to Allied Contingents, working with Dutch, Danes, Poles, French and others across England, a post he took up in 1940.

His greatest gift was once summed-up as "Knowing what people feel": and there must still be many men in England and in other countries where The Times is read, who remember his war-time visits to them with pleasure and gratitude.He retired again in 1943.