Born in Melbourne, he was the son of Marcel Charles Ozanne, a Frenchman, and his wife Emilia Josephine Reinhardt.

He was the bookkeeper for the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works' Werribee Sewage Farm at the time of his election.

[3] He lost his seat to Liberal William Kendell at the 1913 election and served as secretary of Labor's Corio campaign council while again out of parliament.

He was declared "unfit for further service" in January 1917 and was invalided home after visiting the front as a civilian in his capacity as an MP.

He sued the Geelong Advertiser for libel in 1920 but lost when it was held their coverage had been "substantially true".