Source: Regimental Rouge
Family Search: When Private Alexander Foster was born on 7 July 1873, in Calderbank, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, John Foster, was 31 and his mother, Elizabeth Miller, was 28. He had at least 1 son. He immigrated to Canada in 1915 and lived in Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1891 and London, Ontario, Canada in 1915. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 42, his occupation is listed as grand trunk railway carshops in London, Ontario, Canada. He died on 21 May 1917, at the age of 43, and was buried in Neuville-Saint-Vaast, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 
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