Career
He was born in Camberwell. He was the brother of Ernest Bacon and Stanley Bacon. In 1908 he finished fifth in the freestyle middleweight tournament and ninth in the Greco-Roman middleweight tournament.
Four years later he was eliminated in the second round of the Greco-Roman middleweight category.
At the 1920 Olympic he finished ninth in the freestyle middleweight class. His final Olympic appearance was in 1924 when he finished eleventh in the freestyle middleweight tournament.