A former infantryman with the RCR during WW2, in 1942 he attended a PT Course in Aldershot UK as a WO2 and, because of his talent, was retained at the British ASPT as the first and only Canadian Army PTI to be employed as a Staff Instructor at the school. He served there from 1942-1945. In 1954 he joined the staff at the newly formed PT Cadre as its first WO1. On retirement in 1957 he became the Chief Physical Education and Drill Instruction at Upper Canada College in Toronto.