Source: Database regarding the Canadian soldiers buried in the Calais area.
Family Search: When William Joseph Spratling was born on 28 April 1888, in Faversham, Kent, England, United Kingdom, his father, Richard Thomas Spratling, was 26 and his mother, Elizabeth Annie Ferrell, was 24. He had at least 3 daughters with Kate Baker. He lived in Preston, Kent, England, United Kingdom in 1891. He died on 14 October 1918, in France, at the age of 30, and was buried in Blériot-Plage, Pas-de-Calais, France.
Source: CVWM
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 