 With the outbreak of World War II he signed on to the Royal Australian Air Force working predominantly in northern Australia and the Pacific as a commercial artist, between 1943 and 1945 being commissioned to produce various posters and signage related to the war effort.Subsequently doing a portrait of Sir Richard Williams

He married in 1944 to Lyla Foster, they lived at Glen Iris then Armadale.Upon returning home from the Air Force he commenced a large family with his first child Jeff born in 1946.