Service militaire
He was appointed as an Able-Seaman RCNVR.
He served in HMS St. Cathan (ASW Trawler) 1942. (He was decalred Missing Presumed Killed on 11/04/1942 when HMT St. Cathan (Lt. John Mackay, RNR) was sunk in a collision with the Dutch merchant Hebe south-south-east of Little River, South Carolina, U.S.A.)