Source: August 1918 casualty.
Family Grave: When Private James Edmund McLeod was born on 5 January 1896, in McKillop Township, Huron, Ontario, Canada, his father, John Sinclair McLeod, was 40 and his mother, Sarah Letitia McMann, was 31. He lived in Huron, Ontario, Canada in 1901 and Ontario, Canada in 1911. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1916, at the age of 20, his occupation is listed as blacksmith in Ethel, Huron, Ontario, Canada. He died on 9 August 1918, in Amiens, Somme, Picardie, France, at the age of 22, and was buried in Crouy British Cemetery Crouy-sur-Somme, Crouy, Somme, Picardie, France
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 