Source: September 1916 K.I.A.
Family Search: When Corporal Ernest Albert Garside was born on 16 January 1886, in London, Ontario, Canada, his father, Thomas B Garside, was 24 and his mother, Alice Mary Frost, was 20. He lived in Elgin, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1914, at the age of 28, his occupation is listed as boilermaker. He died on 16 September 1916, in Puchevillers, Somme, Picardie, France, at the age of 30, and was buried in Puchevillers British Cemetery, Puchevillers, Somme, Picardie, France.
Appointed Company Cook, October 1914.
Listed in “The Foreign Burial of American War Dead: A History” on page 247. There is no indication he was an American citizen from his service records which show his place of birth being London, Ontario, Canada.
Commemorated at the Central United Church, St. Thomas, Ontario.
This single 27-year-old boilermaker with 3-years militia experience with the 25th Regiment enlisted with the 18th Battalion on October 22, 1915, at St. Thomas, Ontario.
He arrived in England on April 29, 1915, and trained in England. He went AWL several times in England and had pay deducted for these infractions. He went to Europe and service in Belgium and France with his Battalion on September 15, 1915, and was promoted Corporal on June 6, 1916.
He participated in the attack on Courcelette and died of wounds received in action at No. 3 Casualty Clearing Station.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 