29 year old Spirit House Manager formerly a Timber Rafter. Lived at 12 Watt Street. 

Attested 3rd December 1915. Reserve Brigade, 156th Brigade B battalion then 256 Brigade. British Expeditionary Force from 28th August 1916 until 6th November 1916 and  from 15th March 1918 until 3rd August 1018.

Injured previosuly with hip injury then with severe gas poisoning spending 173 days in Fusehill Hospital, Carlisle.