In 1916 he joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force and fought in the trenches of France on the Western Front during World War I.

While fighting on the western front in France he was wounded twice before being transferred to the cavalry where he became the army sabre champion.

[5] After the war he moved back to Nova Scotia Canada with a woman he met and married in while stationed in England.

[1] Sexton was inducted to the British Ice Hockey Hall of Fame in 1950 and died in Folkestone, England, in 1966.

[2] Sexton's photos and Olympic crest as well as his nine-layered laminated childhood puck, complete with hand-carved initials, are on display at the Windsor, Nova Scotia Hockey Heritage Centre.