He was appointed as an Able-Seaman RCNVR.
He served in HMCS Trentonian 1945. (He was killed on 22/02/1945 while serving in HMCS Trentonian (under command of Lt Colin S. Glassco, RCNVR) (while escorting convoy BTC-76) was hit by a torpedo starboard fired by the German submarine U-1004 and sank quickly 12 miles east of Falmouth. One officer and 5 ratings were lost. The survivors, including eleven wounded, were picked up by British Fairmile motor launches.)
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