Family Search: When Private Ewart Gladstone Berry was born on 23 May 1898, in Brantford, Ontario, Canada, his father, John Berry, was 29 and his mother, Agnes Overend, was 24. He lived in Oxford, Ontario, Canada in 1911 and Tillsonburg, Oxford, Ontario, Canada in 1916. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1916, at the age of 18, his occupation is listed as clerk in Tillsonburg, Oxford, Ontario, Canada. He died on 15 August 1917, in Lens, Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France, France, at the age of 19, and was buried in Vimy, Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France, France.
Note: Discharged as under age on January 31, 1916.
Ewart Gladstone Berry: Private Ewart Gladstone Berry was born in Brantford, Ontario on May 23, 1898. He was the son of John and Agnes Berry. According to his attestation papers, he and his parents were listed as living in Tilsonburg, Ontario, but by the 1921 Census, the Berry Family had moved to Toronto Street in Guelph. Before the War, Pvt. Berry was employed as a Clerk in Tilsonburg. He is listed as being 18 years old, and 5 feet 11 inches tall on his enlistment papers. During the War he was attached to the 168th Battalion and the 18th Battalion of the Canadian Infantry. Pvt. Berry’s Circumstances of Casuality states he was Killed in Action on August 15, 1917 in Lens; an area in the Pas-de-Calais region of France. His name is listed on the Vimy Ridge Memorial in France.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 
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