[5] He was educated at Melbourne Grammar School (1895–1899), passing the University Matriculation Examination in 1899.
[7] He played a single game for the Geelong First XVIII in the VFL competition, against St Kilda on 13 June 1903.
Employed as a wool clerk with the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., he enlisted in the First AIF on 15 March 1915, and served overseas with the 5th Australian Infantry Battalion.
He was killed in action near Lone Pine at Gallipoli, Ottoman Turkey on 8 August 1915.
[9] He was buried at the Shrapnel Valley Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery, near Gallipoli, Turkey.