Source: October 1918 casualty.
Wounded October 10, 1918 at Iwuy.
Family Search: When Private Ernest Newell Hastings was born on 14 February 1899, in Brooke, Lambton, Canada West, British Colonial America, his father, John Robert Hastings, was 27 and his mother, Leila V Spalding, was 23. He lived in Lambton, Ontario, Canada in 1911 and Petrolia, Lambton, Ontario, Canada in 1916. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1916, at the age of 17, his occupation is listed as barber’s apprentice in Petrolia, Lambton, Ontario, Canada. He died on 31 October 1918, in Étaples, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France, at the age of 19, and was buried in Étaples, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.
Joining the 149th Battalion at Petrolia, Ontario on January 2, 1916, this 17-year-old barber’s apprentice was off to war.
He boarded the SS Lapland in Halifax on March 25, 1917, and arrived at Liverpool on April 7, 1917. He arrived at Bramshott Camp the same day. He was posted to the 161st Battalion on June 1, 1917, and then moved to Witley Camp. He then was absorbed back into the 4th Reserve Battalion and returned to Bramshott as of March 8, 1918.
Old enough to fight, he was then taken on strength with the 18th Battalion, passing through No. 2 Canadian Infantry Base Depot, Etaples on March 29, 1918, and then arriving at the Canadian Corps Reinforcement Camp on April 3, 1918. 13 days later, he was at the front with the 18th Battalion.
He was wounded at Iwuy in heavy fighting on October 10, 1918, and transported to No. 7 Canadian General Hospital where he died of his wounds on October 31, 1918. He had GSW to his right leg.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 