Source: February 1916 casualty.
Husband of Esther Brodie, of St. Thomas, Ontario.
Family Search: When Private James Benjamin Brodie was born on 4 September 1874, in Clerkenwell, London, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Timothy Brodie, was 40 and his mother, Susan Boor, was 37. He married Esther Conyard on 13 August 1906, in Stratford, Perth, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He immigrated to Canada in 1905 and lived in Perth, Ontario, Canada in 1911. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1914, at the age of 40, his occupation is listed as assistant machinist, grand trunk railway in Stratford, Perth, Ontario, Canada. He died on 25 February 1916, in Ieper, West Flanders, Belgium, at the age of 41, and was buried in Voormezele, West Flanders, Belgium.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 
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