Biographie
He was a draughtsman at the time of his recruitment into the navy.
Service militaire
He enlisted in the RNCVR and was called to active duty in 1917.
He married Florence Mabel Auckland on 15 Oct 1917 and was drafted to HMCS Niobe in Halifax as a Stoker arriving on October 23, 1917. Two weeks later on December 6th he survived the explosion of the French munitions ship Monte Blanc. The Niobe was heavily damaged and he was drafted to HMCS Seagull in Sydney NS. When the war ended he was re-assigned to HMCS Niobe on January 01, 1919 and de-mobilized in March of 1919.
Anecdotes
Leigh Cossey (Email to Nauticapedia 22/02/2026) stated "Emigrated to Canada with parents and three younger siblings arriving in Montreal on 06 Jun 1903 and continued on to Prince Albert NWT where his father had a contract to build a 110' sternwheeler on the bank of the North Saskatchewan River for HBC Co.
In 1905 the family moved to Rat Portage Ont. (now Kenora) on the Lake of the Woods where his Great Grandfather and father established a boat yard where he and his five brothers learned the boat building trade. In about 1913 the boat yard was moved to Portage Bay, Keewatin just a few miles west.
He enlisted in the RNCVR and was called to active duty in 1917.
He married Florence Mabel Auckland on 15 Oct 1917 and was drafted to HMCS Niobe in Halifax as a Stoker arriving on October 23, 1917. Two weeks later on December 6th he survived the explosion of the French munitions ship Monte Blanc. The Niobe was heavily damaged and he was drafted to HMCS Seagull in Sydney NS. When the war ended he was re-assigned to HMCS Niobe on January 01, 1919 and de-mobilized in March of 1919 and returned to Keewatin to the family boat business.
He had two daughters with Florence and built a house on his fathers large lake front property in Keewatin. After the house burned in 1922 they moved to Ford City Ont. (later Windsor) and he worked for a boat yard in Detroit and eventually moved to the USA."
