Born: 30 March 1884
Died: 28 December 1949
A bank officer who was appointed to the AIF on 27 April 1918. He embarked for England 17 July and arrived on 27 September 1918.
On 6 January 1919 he joined the 34th Battalion in France.
He embarked for Australia on 3 May and arrived on 21 June 1919. His appointment in the AIF was terminated on 7 August 1919.
Prior to his enlistment in the AIF he had been a Captain in the Citizen Military Force and was in full time service in Australia. He was involved in the organization of the Cooee March in 1915 from Gilgandra to Sydney and the March to Freedom from Armidale to Sydney in 1918. He ran the recruiting centre at Lithgow from July 1915. Then he was in command of the recruit training camp at Bathurst between late 1915 and 1917 and then continued his involvement in recruit training at the Liverpool camp.
He is the brother-in-law of Arthur Linnett and Harold Gladstone Turnidge. [JSB]
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