He spent the 1913 season at Carlton before moving to the Victorian Football Association (VFA) side Brunswick in 1914.
[4] However, there's no evidence that he ever played in a match for either the Brunswick First XVIII or its associated "Junior" team.
[5] He enlisted in the First AIF on 26 February 1916, and served overseas with the 3rd Machine Gun Battalion.
[6] He returned to active duty in France in June 1918,[7] and was wounded in action, for a second time, on 18 September 1918.
Unconscious on admission, and failing to regain consciousness, he died of the gunshot wounds he had sustained in active service on 22 September 1918.