In December 1925, at the end of his year's appointment, he sailed on the SS Moreton Bay as the ship's surgeon between London and Sydney.

When he returned to Sydney in 1926, he began to work as a general practitioner at 233 New South Head Road, living in a flat behind the surgery.

He returned to private practice in 1946, the same year he became personal paediatric physician to then Governor-General of Australia, Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, and his two young boys.

On 25 February 1947 he was appointed a Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order (LVO) for his service as Honorary Physician to the Duke of Gloucester.

[3] In 1949, the year the Australian Paedriatic Society was founded, he was appointed Australia's first Professor of Child Health.

[5] Five days before he died, a film on his life's work was finished by Tony Culliton and Michael Morton-Evans for Channel 7.