Whakakihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: He tangata whenua no Barrow upon Humber i North Lincolnshire, he tama hoki na te kaipūkaha, i uru a Malim ki te Royal Navy hei kaiako i tana wehenga mai i te Whare Wananga o Weymouth i te 1936. I te tau 1941 i tukuna ia ki te kaipuke maama i Scapa Flow a i whakatairangahia ia hei rangatira i te Hurae o taua tau. I te 13 o Akuhata 1942, i torpedoed te "Manchester" e rua Italian Navy MS- poti i te wa o tetahi waahanga o te waka ki Malta i te Pakanga o te Mediterranean, a he tino kino te kaipuke i whakatau ai tana Kapene ki te horo i a ia. I te taenga atu ki te whenua maroke, i kitea a Malim i te takutai o Algeria, i reira i hopukina ai e nga ope o Vichy France ka whakaraua ki Laghouat. I tukuna ia i Whiringa-a-rangi, he mihi ki te
Ko te whakaekenga a nga hoa ki te raki o Awherika ki te Raki, a, i etahi wiki i muri mai, ka uru atu ki te kaipuke nui i te Raki o te Atlantic. I muri mai ka tukuna ia ki te Royal Naval College, Greenwich, mai i te 1943 ki te 1945.