 While in command on Lake Tanganyika, Spicer-Simson often wore a khaki drill skirt, and he insisted that an Admiral's flag be flown outside his hut.He smoked monogrammed cigarettes and had a number of "macabre tattoos" acquired during his time in Asia.He was later Assistant Director of Naval Intelligence, with the rank of acting captain, and a naval delegate and French translator at the Versailles Peace Conference in 1919.