Source: July 1916 KIA.
Family Search: When Private Walter Sidney Gee was born on 21 September 1896, in Leicester, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Alfred Gee, was 31 and his mother, Elizabeth Ball, was 32. He immigrated to Galt, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in 1913. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1914, at the age of 18, his occupation is listed as labourer in Galt, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He died on 17 July 1916, in Poperinge, West Flanders, Belgium, at the age of 19, and was buried in Ieper, West Flanders, Belgium.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 
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