Source: August 1918 casualty.
Family Search: When Lance-Corporal Alexander John Goggin Graham was born on 2 August 1892, in Fordwich, Huron, Ontario, Canada, his father, Adam Alexander Graham, was 27 and his mother, Louisa Goggin, was 24. He lived in Huron, Ontario, Canada in 1911. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1915, at the age of 23, his occupation is listed as farmer. He died on 27 August 1918, in Arras, Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France, France, at the age of 26, and was buried in Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension, Aubigny, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.
A.A. and Mrs. Graham, 10th Con.m are in receipt of a war memento which they cherish highly. It is the wood cross taken from the head of the grave of their son, Alex, in France and sent to them by the War Graves Commission. It is a plain white wooden cross bearing these words:- “A.J.G. Graham, No. 654805, 27-8-18.” It also shows where it had been in the ground about two feet as the clay was still clinging to it.
The Brussels Post. May ,7 1924. Page 5.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 