1890 Dec 13. Born London
1891 census in Lambeth
1901 census in Kensington
1908 Sep 3. Enlisted in Army Reserve
1911 census at 15 Richmond Place, Lambeth
1911 Dec 25 Married Lambeth, London to Rose Redman
1914 Aug 8. Enlisted in Regular Army
1914 Oct 26 Posted to France
1914 Nov 11 taken POW
1919 Jan 12. Posted back to UK
1919 Apr 18 Demobilized
1920 Nov 5 enlisted as RIC no 75256 ex-serviceman & Smith
A number of Ancestry trees quote his death at Colchester in 1975, but I can find no proof of that