Service militaire
He was appointed as an Able-Seaman RCNVR.
He served in HMCS Louisburg 1943. (He was killed In in HMCS Louisburg 06/02/1943 near Cape Tenes, Algeria when convoy KMF-8 (Gibraltar to Bone) was attacked by 2 separate formations of German planes and the ship was hit by bombs and torpedoes and sank.)