 After starting season 1915–16 in a similar fashion, he volunteered for the Black Watch in November 1915.In total, he scored 80 goals in 92 games for Dundee Hibs in all competitions.He was fatally wounded by a shell during a German trench raid at the Ypres salient on 26 March 1917, having attained the rank of corporal by the time of his death.