Born: 16 April 1893
Died: 11 April 1970
A grocer's assistant who enlisted in the AIF on 5 December 1917. He embarked for England on 8 May and arrived on 10 July.
He joined the 55th Battalion in France on 21 October 1918.
He chose to be discharged from the AIF in England on 13 June 1919 so as to enlist in the British North Russian Relief Force.
He and a number of other Australians who had also been discharged from the AIF were allotted to the 201st Machine Gun Battalion which was sent immediately as part of the North Russian Relief Force to Archangel, Russia to help the British and Allied forces increasingly under attack from Bolshevik forces. The Force remained in Archangel until September 1919 when all British and Allied forces were withdrawn. [JSB]
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