 He was awarded the Wound Badge in Silver, becoming the only Englishman to receive a German combat decoration during World War II.He was "transferred to the British Free Corps in early 1944".On 20 April 1944 he "was promoted to Oberscharführer and sent to man a transit camp for new recruits at a villa in the Grunewald district of Berlin" In November 1944 he was dismissed from the British Free Corps and arrested for "various heinous anti-Nazi crimes".