- On 15 February 1942, he surrendered Singapore to Lieutenant-General Tomoyuki Yamashita of the Imperial Japanese Army. 130,000 Allied personnel surrendered to less than 30,000 Japanese. He was held prisoner in Manchuria until the end of World War II.
- Was present at the surrender of Japan at Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945 on board the USS Missouri.
- In 1916, as a first lieutenant, he went with the Bedfordshire Regiment to France for the Battle of Somme, and won the Military Cross.
- After the Dunkirk evacuation in 1940, he commanded the 44th Division, protecting the English coast.
- He was awarded the O.B.E. (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in 1921 for his services to the military.
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