[2] He then became Deputy Military Governor and Chief of Staff of the British Zone for the Allied Control Council in Germany in 1945; in that capacity he was involved in negotiations to avoid the Berlin Blockade.

The citation for his MC reads:[6] For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty during lengthy operations.

It was largely due to his courage and able leadership that the counter-attack of two battalions against a hostile position was successful.

[10] In 1956 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Weeks, of Ryton in the County Palatine of Durham.

With his second wife he had two daughters:[12] Weeks died on 19 August 1960, aged 69, when, in the absence of male heirs, the barony became extinct.