Source: November 1917 casualty.
Family Search: When Private Edward Walter Dawson was born on 5 January 1889, in Chatham, Kent, Ontario, Canada, his father, Walter Dawson, was 37 and his mother, Sophia Gabrielle Brilla Collar, was 24. He lived in Romney, Kent, Ontario, Canada, in 1891 and Kent, Ontario, Canada, in 1901. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1916, at the age of 27, his occupation is listed as fisherman in Coatsworth, Kent, Ontario, Canada. He died on 7 November 1917, in Poperinge, West Flanders, Belgium, at the age of 28, and was buried in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Poperinge, West Flanders, Belgium.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 