Service militaire
He was appointed as a Petty Officer Stoker RCNVR. (On 17/03/1945 he was missing presumed killed while serving in HMCS Guysborough (J 52) (T/Lt B.T.R. Russell, RCNR in command) on 17 Mar, 1945, HMCS Guysborough was hit in the stern by a Gnat from U-868 about 210 miles north of Cape Finisterre in the Bay of Biscay.)