In WW2, he was a Captain in 5 Battalion The King's Own Scottish Borderers, and was recommended for the Military Cross on 12 April 1945.
Mentioned in the book 'Walcheren: Operation Infatuate'.
He or his family gave Robert Hall medical treatment at Auchencheyne after Robert fell off his bike while cycling too fast down the hill between Loch Urr and Glencrosh probably in the mid to late 1940s.