 After the outbreak of the Second World War, he accompanied the Royal Air Force in France, between September 1939 and May 1940, as "The Daily Telegraph"'s correspondent.He joined the Army Intelligence Corps on 4 July 1940, but was released in 1944 in order to return to "The Daily Telegraph" as a war correspondent with the American First Army after the invasion of Normandy.He was killed by shell fire in action in Remagen, Germany, whilst covering the taking of one of the last surviving bridges over the River Rhine in March 1945.