Tuhia he tomokanga mō tēnei wāhanga - He tangata whenua nō Barrow upon Humber i Te Tai Tokerau o Lincolnshire, he tama hoki nō tētahi kaipūkaha, i uru a Malim ki te Royal Navy hei kaihautū i tana wehenga mai i te Weymouth College i te tau 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, nā te whakaekenga a te Allied
o French North Africa, ā, he wiki torutoru i muri mai ka uru atu ki te kaipuke nui i te Tai Tokerau o te Moana-a-Kiwa. I muri mai ka tukuna ia ki te Royal Naval College, Greenwich, mai i te 1943 ki te 1945.