 During the First World War he served as a corporal in the Shropshire Regiment of the Volunteer Training Corps.He married in 1901 Agnes, daughter of Benjamin Timmis, farmer, of Westbury, Shropshire and had three sons and a daughter.He died from heart failure at his home, Oakfield House in South Hermitage, Belle Vue, Shrewsbury on 18 July 1927 aged 56 and was buried on 20 July at Shrewsbury General Cemetery in Longden Road.