Source: June 1916 K.I.A.
Family Search: When Private William Edwin Gostage was born on 16 October 1880, in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Charles Gostage, was 29 and his mother, Rebecca Jones, was 24. He immigrated to North America in 1914 and lived in St. Thomas, Elgin, Ontario, Canada in 1912 and Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States in 1912. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 35, his occupation is listed as machinist, ford motor company in Windsor, Essex, Ontario, Canada. He died on 6 June 1916, in Ieper, West Flanders, Belgium, at the age of 35, and was buried in Bedford House Cemetery, Ieper, West Flanders, Belgium.
He attested that the year of his birth was 1885.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 
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