军事服役
He was appointed as an Able-Seaman RCNVR. (He was 'missing presumed killed' on 08/08/1944 when HMCS Regina was torpedoed and sunk by U-667 8 nautical miles (15 km) north of Trevose Head on the coast of Cornwall UK while rescuing survivors of the American merchant Ezra Weston with a loss of 30 members of the ship's company.)