Source: Found in Circumstances of Casualty during search for Leonard McMullen.
Family Search: When John Wesley McMullen was born on 6 October 1894, in Hastings, Ontario, Canada, his father, Frederick Hiram McMullen, was 28 and his mother, Phoebe Susan Wannamaker, was 28. He lived in Oshawa, Durham, Ontario, Canada in 1915. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 21, his occupation is listed as labourer in Oshawa, Durham, Ontario, Canada. He died on 9 April 1917, in Thélus, Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France, France, at the age of 22, and was buried in Thélus, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.
| Reg number | 746055 |
| Name | McMullen, John Wesley |
| Rank | Private |
| Year of Birth | 3/8/1905 |
| Date of Death | 4/9/1917 |
| Cemetery | |
| Cemetery location | |
| Country of birth | Canada |
| Home Country | Canada |
| City born | Trenton, ON |
| Address | Oshawa, ON |
| Enlistment Date | 12/18/1915 |
| Drafted? | |
| Enlistment place | Oshawa |
| Origin Unit | 116th Battalion |
| Pre war Unit | |
| Final Bn | 18th |
| Ship | SS Olympic |
| Date in England | 7/31/1916 |
| Date in France | |
| Date w 116 | 12/18/1915 |
| Left 116th | 10/6/1916 |
| Married | no |
| Occupation | labourer |
| Wounded date | |
| Wound type/Death particuolars | |
| KIA | yes |
| DOW | |
| Died other | |
| Missing/Presumed Dead | |
| Wounded | |
| Sick | |
| PTSD | |
| Medals | |
| Vimy | yes |
| Vimy area | |
| Raid | |
| Hill 70 | |
| Pass | |
| Amiens | |
| Parvillers | |
| Boiry | |
| Canal | |
| Other | |
| Unit History | 116th to 18th battalion |
| Other details | D Coy |
| Field Punishment | |
| FP Details | |
| Gravestone | |
| Underage | |
| Medically Unit | |
| Deserter | |
| Undesirable | |
| Casualty Description | Killed in action |
War Diary of the 18th Battalion CEF 
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