Source: The Regimental Rogue
Family Search: When Private Alexander Russell Whittaker was born on 13 January 1896, in London Township, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada, his father, Francis Whittaker, was 27 and his mother, Annie Frances Richards, was 26. He lived in Essex, Ontario, Canada in 1911 and Windsor, Sandwich Township, Essex, Ontario, Canada in 1918. He registered for military service in 1918. In 1918, at the age of 22, his occupation is listed as plumber, r. padden plumbing in Windsor, Sandwich Township, Essex, Ontario, Canada. He died on 11 October 1918, in Iwuy, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France, at the age of 22, and was buried in Niagara Cemetery, Iwuy, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 