Family Search: When Private Charles Franklyn ‘Charlie’ Scafe was born on 5 August 1892, in Florence, Dawn-Euphemia, Lambton, Ontario, Canada, his father, John James Scafe, was 33 and his mother, Emma Jane Nichols, was 30. He lived in Elgin, Ontario, Canada in 1901 and Duart, Kent, Ontario, Canada in 1916. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1916, at the age of 24, his occupation is listed as carpenter in Duart, Kent, Ontario, Canada. He died on 9 January 1919, in London Township, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 26, and was buried in Duart Cemetery, Duart, Chatham-Kent, Ontario, Canada.
Source: Per post by Allan Miller at the 149th Battalion CEF- Lambton’s Own Facebook Group.





