 He remarried soon after to Naomi Priscilla Gee at St Peter's Anglican Church, Watsons Bay on 9 December 1950.During his military service he had missed the political upheavals of the collapse of the UAP and the foundation of the Liberal Party in 1945.He retained his seat at the election on 3 May 1947, assisted by a young Robert Askin, a former Sergeant in his battalion.