Clerk at Westburn Sugar. Born Greenock aged 19 at Enlistment. Lived 9 Mount Pleasant St. Brother George, and half brothers David and Thomas. There is a letter from his father in 1919 asking where his son may be - having been posted missing

Enlisted 25/2/16. Disembarked at Calais on 2/1/17 posted to 14th A & SH "C" Coy on 24/1/17. Hospitalised 24/4/17 GSW to right leg 26/11/17 Reported wounded or missing in action 21-27/3/1918