 Having gained promotion to the rank of captain, he was moved back to the front line and was killed at Hermies in France during the great German assault.He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial to the Missing and on the lychgate at Little Eaton church, Derbyshire.His collected poems were published by Monro in 1919 under the title "Magpies in Picardy" and a second novel, "Bolts from the Blue", appeared in 1929.