Source: K.I.A. December 1916.
Family Search: When Private Charles Myers Cannon was born on 20 September 1896, in Portland, Rideau Lakes, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada, his father, Charles Rossington Cannon, was 25 and his mother, Maud Lillian Myers, was 25. He lived in Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada in 1901 and Ontario, Canada in 1911. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1916, at the age of 20, his occupation is listed as mill wright in Portland, Rideau Lakes, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada. He died on 30 December 1916, in Barlin, Pas-de-Calais, France, at the age of 20, and was buried in Barlin Communal Cemetery Extension, Barlin, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 