Volunteered in 1916, a year before America entered WWI, to go to France as an ambulance driver and stretcher bearer:

"He worked his way across the Atlantic, paid all his expenses for uniforms, had trouble wioth the customs officials in France, but finally got to the front lines where he remained until an exploding shell at Verdun caused hime to return to the United States." Tampa Bay Times, 2 Aug 1931

In 1931, Chief Instructor for the St. Petersburg Aeronautic Association, Florida.