1893

Born in Bacchus Marsh, VIC

24/7/1915

Enlisted at Cootamundra, NSW in the AIF, 11^th Reinforcements, 1^st Battalion, aged a little under 22.

5/10/1915

Embarked from Sydney aboard the HMAT A32 Themistocles

13/2/1916

Transferred to the 53^rd Battalion in Egypt

3/3/1916

Transferred to the 5^th Pioneer Battalion

18/3/1916

Promoted to Corporal

13/5/1916

Promoted to Sergeant

19/6/1916

Embarked from Alexandria, Egypt

25/6/1916

Disembarked at Marseilles, France

25/10/1916

Hit by a shell fragment and was carried to a Dressing Station where he died some hours later

Buried in a shell hole near Fleurs, France

Exhumed and reburied in the Caterpillar Valley Military Cemetery, Longueval, France, plot 13, row A , grave 38