Source: Marika Pirie Twitter post
Family Search: When Private William Matthew McGovern was born on 26 November 1893, in Ottawa, Carleton, Ontario, Canada, his father, Matthew McGovern, was 32 and his mother, Mary Ann Doran, was 31. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 22, his occupation is listed as bookbinder in Ottawa, Carleton, Ontario, Canada. He died on 9 April 1917, in Thélus, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France, at the age of 23, and was buried in Thélus, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 
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