Hugh was, however, very much alive and carried on a correspondence with Catherine who was now a nurse tending the wounded in England. In 1918 he and another Highlander escaped and evaded capture by being hidden by a Polish priest and by speaking Gaelic which was mistaken by the Germans for Russian. He made his way back to Britain and very shortly returned to France for the remainder of the War.    On his return he received a handwritten letter of thanks from King George and was demobbed having been decorated with the British War Medal and the Victory Medal.