Seventh child. Served in WWI in France with his brothers Edwin, Jim, Billy and Richard. He enlisted in June 1916 and embarked on 16 December 1916 as a Private on the 38th Infantry Battlalion, A.I.F. Won a medal for knocking down a German aeroplane from the trenches by tossing a grenade into it.
In 1938 he had the original weatherboard Deer Park homestead pulled down and he built the present home of "Deer Park" at a cost of 1,689 pounds. He suffered from severe asthma.