Family Search: When Private Loius Theodore Byrnes was born on 29 October 1897, in Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada, his father, William Byrnes, was 22 and his mother, Mary Amelia Wells, was 18. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1916, at the age of 19, his occupation is listed as printer in Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada. He died on 15 August 1917, in Lens, Pas-de-Calais, France, at the age of 19, and was buried in Aix-Noulette, Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France, France.
Lied on his attestation papers. Born 1899 not 1897.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 
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