[6] He was suspended for four weeks after being reported by a steward for punching Fred Hanson in the match against St Kilda, at the M.C.G.

[14][15] He enlisted in November 1915 and served as a dentist with the Australian Army Medical Corps Dental Detail.

He served in France in late 1916, but was gassed, hospitalised and returned to England, taking charge of a dental unit on Salisbury Plain.

[18] He practised dentistry in the Melbourne suburb of Malvern until 1929, when he moved to Numurkah in northern Victoria and then to Tocumwal in New South Wales.

[19] He died of pneumonia on 12 May 1930 in Berrigan, New South Wales,[20] and was buried at the Melbourne General Cemetery on 14 May 1930.