On 19 September 1933, Foreman regained the Canadian Lightweight Championship as well as defending his Commonwealth of the British Empire Lightweight Championship, beating Tommy Bland in a ten-round mixed decision before a crowd of 5,000 at the Mount Royal Arena in his Canadian hometown, Montreal. Foreman won the bout with hard blows to the body and head of Bland, though the youthful Bland withstood the punishment. In the close bout, two judges voted for Foreman, while one voted a draw. Foreman mounted a strong right hand offensive and a careful and deliberate style against the two handed attack of Bland. Foreman had been away from Canada fighting in England, and had formerly lost the title to Billy Townsend in Vancouver on 13 December 1929. Foreman's lost his last bout against Petey Sarron at Griffith Stadium in Washington, D.C., on 29 June 1934, in a ten-round split decision. By one account, Foreman's subsequent boxing retirement was due to his concern over blurred vision he had obtained during his career. After his last fight, Foreman worked for the "Montreal Standard", Canada's largest weekly newspaper, gaining recognition as an outstanding photojournalist. He acted as a boxing promoter as well, working often at the Montreal Forum. He joined the Royal Air Force at the outbreak of WWII, receiving a Distinguished Flying Cross for flying 37 missions during the war. His unit, the "Dam Busters" bombed dams on the Ruhr as well as the Moline Dam, and executed a raid on Hitler's Eagle's Nest. On one mission, the turret gun he operated was badly damaged by flak and he was left injured hanging from the plane's fuselage. After his service in WWII, he returned to photography and opened his own portrait studio in Montreal. Late in life he worked as a voluntary physical instructor at a YMHA in Montreal. In 1954, he died in a Montreal hospital sixteen days after a second heart attack. He was 50.