Family Search: When Samuel James Billington was born on 1 November 1888, in Sandbach, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Samuel Billington, was 28 and his mother, Hannah Elizabeth Witter, was 26. He immigrated to Canada in 1910 and lived in Elworth, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom in 1889 and Church Hulme, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom in 1901. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 27, his occupation is listed as farm hand in Thorndale, Thames Centre, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada. He died on 28 May 1917, in Vimy, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France, at the age of 28, and was buried in Neuville-Saint-Vaast, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 