Enlisted 20 November 1915. Arrived Suez 15 March 1916 and posted to the New Zealand Pioneer Battalion and sailed from Port Said for France 9 April 1916. Sick in 2nd Australian General Hospital, France 28 July 1916 and was transferred on Hospital Ship Cambria to United Kingdom 30 July 1916 and then onto the New Zealand Convalescent Hospital, Hornchurch 14 August 1916. On 30 December 1916 was sentenced to 30 days detention by District Court Martial for desertion from 18-19 October 1916 to 10 November 1916. Was in Sling Camp 1 January 1917 to 16 June 1917. Posted to the New Zealand Engineer Reserve Depot 16 July 1917, Christchurch, United Kingdom, before being posted to France 23 July 1917. On 11 August 1917 he joined the New Zealand Pioneer Battalion. Transferred to the Rarotongan Company 9 June 1918 and on 15 June 1918 received a movement order transferring him from Marseille to Egypt on HMT Manitou. Admitted to 2nd Australian Stationary Hospital 30 June 1918 with an injured spine and posted to Rarotongan Company 18 July 1918. Classified as unfit 5 October 1918 and returned to New Zealand as an invalid on SS Malta. Discharged 8 May 1919.