Source: April 1916 casualty.
Family Search: When Sergeant Reginald William Fendley was born on 22 June 1890, in Bairnsdale, Victoria, Australia, his father, Henry Miller Fendley, was 33 and his mother, Julia Francome, was 26. He immigrated to United States in 1914. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1914, at the age of 24, his occupation is listed as autobody maker. He died on 10 March 1916, in Ieper, West Flanders, Belgium, at the age of 25, and was buried in Voormezele, West Flanders, Belgium.
Three London men killed and nine wounded is the official casualty report of last night and this morning from Ottawa. In addition there are many others in the list from Western Ontario. No less than three of Windsor’s sons are mentioned killed in action.
The Windsor men are Sergt. Reg. Fendley, Corp. Jon. Page [This may be a typographic error. No soldier by the name of Page died in April 1916] and Pte. Arthur Hudson. The two first named enlisted and went to the front as privates, but won promotion before they met their death. The relatives of all are in the old land.
In the list of wounded is Lieut. Jas. Henry Lovett of Ayr.
London Free Press: April 27, 1916
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 
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