Source: July 1916 KIA.
Family Search: When Lance-Corporal William Slack was born on 15 March 1881, in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, James Slack, was 36 and his mother, Jane Colley, was 35. He had at least 2 sons and 2 daughters with Annie Eliza Coleman. He immigrated to Canada in 1913 and lived in Ontario, Canada in 1911 and Hamilton, Hamilton-Wentworth, Ontario, Canada in 1915. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 34, his occupation is listed as moulder, international harvester in Hamilton, Hamilton-Wentworth, Ontario, Canada. He died on 15 July 1916, in Étaples, Pas-de-Calais, France, at the age of 35, and was buried in Étaples, Pas-de-Calais, France.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 
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