Educated at Cardiff, he graduated in science in 1938, and qualified in 1941 with distinction in anatomy, physiology, pharmacology, public health and surgery. He entered the RAMC at once and served as a graded surgical specialist, until the end of the war in 1945. He was house surgeon at the Royal Infirmary, Cardiff, and at Ronkswood Hospital, Worcester, and after taking the Fellowship in 1949 was appointed first assistant surgeon to the Luton and Dunstable Hospital. He lived at Byculla, Friars Walk, Dunstable, where he died on 22 October 1954 in his middle thirties.