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1890 Apr 14. Born London
1891 census in Lambeth
1908 Apr 8. Signs up for 4 year Territorial enlistment
1910 Oct 30. Struck off Territorials strength due to absence
1914 Oct Married to Dorothy Kathleen Dennis
1914 Aug enlisted in 1/6 Gloucestershire Regt
August 1914 : in Clifton, Bristol. Part of Gloucester and Worcester Brigade in South Midland Division. Moved on mobilisation to Swindon but very quickly on to Maldon in Essex. 30 March 1915 : landed at Boulogne. 15 May 1915 : formation became the 144th Brigade, 48th (South Midland) Division. November 1917 : moved with the Division to Italy.
He had to have landed in france later than Dec 1915, as he did not get that Star.
1916 Oct. His hospital record implies this was when he was posted to France
1917 Oct 24. admitted Queen Alexandra's Military Hospital At Millbank. He is a Sgt. 12 months in field and 3years 2 months enlisted. He was admitted for "PUO". Pyrexia of Unknown Origin. On First World War military medical records, it was a standard diagnostic classification used for soldiers presenting with a high fever when the specific underlying infection or pathogen could not be definitively identified. It was frequently referred to colloquially by troops as "trench fever" (though trench fever was later identified as being caused by Bartonella quintana transmitted by body lice)
1917 Dec 12 transferred out of Queen Alexandra's Military Hospital At Millbank to Metropolitan Hospital. He had been in that hospital 49 days
1919 Mar 3. Commission on discharge, 2nd Lt in Gloucs Reg
1921 Apr 8. Joined ADRIC from England with service no 1883. Posted to I Coy
1922 Jan. Appears to have served until demobilisation of ADRIC
1939 Register Living at Alexandra Yacht Club Home , Southend-on-Sea C.B., Essex where he is Club Chief Steward
1974 Jun. Died Bournemouth, Hants