 He earned a Mention in Despatches as DAA and quartermaster general of General (later Field Marshal) William Slim's 10th Division.He served in Iraq, Iran and Syria in 1941–1942 and then in Burma in 1943–1944.Back in India in March 1942, he was posted as second-in-command of the newly raised 7th Rajput Machine Gun Battalion at Fatehgarh.