He could have been transferred to the Royal Navy!
According to Winston Churchill: (And he was 1St Sea Lord!) “Don’t talk to me about naval tradition. It’s nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.”.
He sounds like he should like at least 2 out of 3 !
I would love the rum, and the lash would be useful for discipline, but you can count me out of the gay orgies. I’ll be in my bunk reading the Bible.