Servicio militar
He was appointed as an Able-Seaman RCNVR. (He died on 15/11/1942 while serving on passage in HM Troopship Ettrick. On her homeward voyage from North Africa to Southampton, on November 15, 1942 HMS Ettrick was torpedoed by the German submarine U -155, and sunk near Gibraltar, with a loss of 24 lives.)