Source: CEF Study Group Post
Find-A-Grave (France) Find-A-Grave (Canada)
Family Search: When Private John Archibald McCallum was born on 6 July 1877, in Thornhill, York, Ontario, Canada, his father, Neil McCallum, was 32 and his mother, Jane Jeffrey, was 33. He had at least 3 sons and 1 daughter with Jane May Weatherhead. He lived in Bruce, Ontario, Canada in 1901. He died on 26 August 1918, in Guémappe, Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France, France, at the age of 41, and was buried in Wancourt British Cemetery, Wancourt, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.
From the Canadian Great War Project:
John was my Grandfather. I have done considerable research on him. He was a farmer before enlistment, and left a wife and 4 children to go off to war. My mother was the youngest at 5 months when he left the country in Oct. 1916. After many months of training in England with the 160th Bruce Bn., the unit was broken up for reserves in several different Battalions. John was sent to France March 29, 1918 with the 18th Bn. CEF. He participated in the battle at Amiens on Aug. 8, 1918. The unit was relocated in secret and on Aug. 26, 1918 attacked towards Chapel Hill-Wancourt, outside of Arras. On that day, he was killed instantly by an enemy shell.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 
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