He captained his cricket and football teams from his second year on and was made a University blue for both sports.
[3] After his year of residency at the Royal Melbourne Hospital he entered the Australian Army Medical Corps in 1916 and spent his time in France.
[4] On returning to civilian life he set up medical practice in Colac in 1920 and married Miss Lewis Maffra Grant the same year.
During World War II, the shortage of medical men in the country areas took toll on his health and he suffered his first heart attack in 1948 and his second fatal one in 1949.
[5] He was survived by his widow, and four children, the two eldest following him in the practice of medicine,[6] while his daughter Alison became a mathematician.