Source: April 1917 casualty.
Family Search: Private James McShane was born on 15 August 1888, in Wigtown, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, United Kingdom, as the son of James McShane and Elizabeth Connell McCann. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 27, his occupation is listed as locomotive fireman, Canadian Pacific Railway in Smiths Falls, Lanark, Ontario, Canada. He died on 9 April 1917, in Thélus, Pas-de-Calais, France, at the age of 28, and was buried in Thélus, Pas-de-Calais, France.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 