Source: Chatham-Kent Cemeteries
Family Search: When Private Francis Carson Crothers was born on 19 December 1893, in Wallaceburg, Kent, Ontario, Canada, his father, James Carson Crothers, was 33 and his mother, Ida S. Beer, was 27. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1917, his occupation is listed as engineer in Wallaceburg, Kent, Ontario, Canada. He died on 2 November 1917, in Passendale, West Flanders, Belgium, at the age of 23.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 