Educated at the University of Sydney, he held resident posts there and at the Hammersmith Hospital (British Postgraduate Medical School) between 1936 and 1939. During the second world war he served as a surgical specialist, with the rank of Major RAMC, in France and India, and returned to the Postgraduate Medical School as surgical registrar and assistant lecturer in surgery 1946-47. He then went back to Sydney, and served on the honorary staff of St Vincent's Hospital, the Lewisham Hospital, and the New South Wales Community Hospital. He was a teaching Fellow in Pathology and a tutor in surgery in the University of Sydney. Towards the end of his life he was in practice with Dr Peter Prentice at Sandgate, near Brisbane, Queensland. He died on 24 January 1964.