Enlisted for service in the Second World War aged 71 and served at Wigram with clerical duties. He was a Sergeant-Major with the 4th Dragoon Guards in the North West Frontier, The South African War and World War One. Between the South African War and the First World War he served as the King's coachman and later rejoined the Royal Household after the Second World War. Source: Hanson, 'By Such Deeds', p.131. AWMM