His ambition was himself to take the first of these into action.
At last he was offered an opportunity of co-operating with a small 3-man pattern in a minor raid near Forward Cottage.

What success he might have achieved it is impossible to say, as in his eagerness he preceded the shield by several yards to show the crew the way and was hit in the neck by a splinter from a bomb.

The name of Admiral's Road, given to the road past Crossroads Farm and Forward Cottage, commemorates the incident of which it was the scene.

Later "The Admiral" turned his attention to Bangalore torpedoes, in the use of which he trained the unauthorised party which had long existed under the name of the 6th Division Shield Party.

With them he took part in many raids and minor enterprises, one of which earned him the D.S.O.
On the 10th June he was reported missing from a patrol of the 9th Norfolk Regiment, and nothing has since been heard of him.