Source: August 1917 Casualty
Family Search: When Private Chester Charles Fickley was born on 23 June 1886, in Hamilton, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada, his father, William Edward Fickley, was 27 and his mother, Agnes Gertrude Mulcahy, was 20. He immigrated to Vermont, United States in 1895 and lived in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada in 1911. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 29, his occupation is listed as labourer in Hamilton, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada. He died on 21 August 1917, in Lens, Pas-de-Calais, France, at the age of 31, and was buried in Aix-Noulette, Pas-de-Calais, France
NOTE: This soldier left an inscription on the walls of the castle of Bouvigny-Boeffles, Pas-de-Calais, France. This information is available in a book compiled by Patrice Machin.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 