Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Ya kuma ga aiki a cikin Yaƙin Duniya na Biyu, da farko a matsayin Babban Jami'in a kan jirgin ruwa. Daga 1940 ya kasance Mataimakin Daraktan Shirye-shiryen a Admiralty sannan, daga 1943, ya koma teku a matsayin Kwamandan jirgin ruwa na HMS "Mauritius", a cikin wannan matsayin ya shiga cikin saukar Sicily
, da Normandy saukowa, da kuma aiki a Audierne Bay. Daga Nuwamba 1944 zuwa Fabrairu 1946 an nada shi Daraktan Torpedoes da Mining.