He was appointed as an Ordinary Seaman RCNVR.
He was appointed as an Able-Seaman RCNVR.
He served in HMCS Valleyfield 1944. (He was killed in action on 07/05/1944 when HMCS Valleyfield was hit by one torpedo, fired by U-548, on the port side in the boiler room, broke in two and sank within four minutes about 50 miles south of Cape Race, Newfoundland.)
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