By then over six seasons he had already made almost a two hundred appearances for the The Jambos, had been awarded three caps and club benefit match. And, although whilst serving in France he was wounded and invalided out after a year, the injuries did not impede his game. Thus from 1915 he was able to resume, making another one hundred and fifty plus starts to 1921, when even from aged thirty-six, officially recorded as a clerk, he played a season more at Dunfermline in the Second Division, then moved sideways for three more at Cowdenbeath, taking the club to promotion in 1924. 

He was by that time coming up to forty, had been married for the best part of fifteen years, having wed in 1910 to Margaret Moore in Leith. They were to have three children all born in Morningside, where they were to settle, he after football buying and running a bar at the the top of Easter Road. In fact on his death in 1959, just past his seventy-fifth birthday, he would recorded as a Wine and Spirit Merchant, to be cremated at Warriston Cemetery and survived by Maggie by two decades. She would pass away in 1981 in Newington at the age of ninety-one.