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Family Search: When Private Joseph Wilson Cole was born on 16 April 1894, in Forest, Lambton, Ontario, Canada, his father, Myron Grills Cole, was 30 and his mother, Elizabeth Holmes, was 28. He lived in Lambton, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 21, his occupation is listed as grain dealer. He died on 20 July 1917, in Lens, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France, at the age of 23, and was buried in Sains-en-Gohelle, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.
Cole, Joseph Wilson: Service no. 123509.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 
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