However later organizers decided to move the events closer locations, Tangalle and Tissamaharama.
On the 18 May 1914 he drowned while on a shooting expedition, in an accident on the Tissa Tank lake, Tissamaharama, in southern Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).
From 1992-1993 he took part in excavations carried out in Tissamaharama, Southern Province, Sri Lanka, under the direction of Dr. Hans Joachim Weisshaar of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI).