Family Search: When Private James A. Doherty was born on 12 August 1897, in Shannonville, Hastings, Ontario, Canada, his father, Albert Doherty, was 54 and his mother, Victoria Baker, was 30. He lived in Hastings, Ontario, Canada in 1901. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 18, his occupation is listed as farmer in Shannonville, Hastings, Ontario, Canada. He died on 8 August 1918, in Marcelcave, Somme, Picardie, France, at the age of 20, and was buried in Villers-Bretonneux, Somme, Picardie, France.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 