[1] He married Helen Courage of Shenfield Place, Essex in 1908; they had four children.

He was a lieutenant colonel in the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards, and witnessed the first action in World War I in August 1914 at Casteau.

He was mentioned in dispatches four times; and awarded a Distinguished Service Order[2] and Legion of Honour[3] for improving the mobility of the Vickers machine gun.

Brigadier Beauvoir De Lisle ordered him to form the first 36 companies of the Machine Gun Corps.

[4] During World War II he was at the same time a senator, an officer in the British Army and Chief of the Name.