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He entered the Royal Naval Air Service as a temporary probationary flight officer, and following flight training was commissioned as a temporary flight sub-lieutenant on 15 February 1918. He was posted to No. 4 (Naval) Squadron, which following the merging of the Royal Naval Air Service and the Army's Royal Flying Corps on 1 April 1918 became No. 204 Squadron, Royal Air Force.