He acted in Andre Obey's play, "Frost at Midnight," at the Hampstead Theatre Club in Hampstead, London, England with Raf De La Torre, Peter Gale, Derek Lanyon, Declan Mulholland, Robert Bernal, Roger Hammond, Patricia Connoly, and Vincent Harding in the cast. Jean-Pierre Voos was director.
Awarded the Distinguished Flying Medal (the highest award other than the Victoria Cross that can be awarded to non-commissioned flight crew) as an air gunner with No. 10 Squadron during WWII. The medal was one of several that were stolen by thieves from the Yorkshire Air Museum near York in November 2014.