Source: Service records of Lieutenant Rouse.
Family Search: When Second Lieutenant Lindsay Clarence Vogan was born on 7 August 1896, in Woodstock, Oxford, Ontario, Canada, his father, Henry Vogan, was 39 and his mother, Catharine Forrest, was 28. He lived in Oxford, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1914, at the age of 18, his occupation is listed as student in Woodstock, Oxford, Ontario, Canada. He died on 28 April 1917, in Pas-de-Calais, France, at the age of 20, and was buried in Barlin, Pas-de-Calais, France.
LIEUT. LINDSAY VOGAN DIES OF HIS WOUNDS
Popular Young Woodstock Soldier Give His Like For His Country – Pte. W.J. Lamb Killed in Action
Lieut. Lindsay Vogan has made the supreme sacrifice. Reported wounded a week ago, a further cable to his mother, Mrs. E. Vogan, Grace Street, to-day, announced his death from wounds. This make the second death in the family, Lieut. Stanley Vogan, a brother, a member of the 71st Battalion, was reported killed in action some months ago.
Lieut. Lindsay Vogan was a very popular young man. At the time of his enlistment he was attending the Collegiate Institute. He enlisted in the 18th Battalion and carried the title of sergeant, which he had acquired in the old 22nd Oxford Rifles. He was known in the overseas unit as the “baby sergeant,” on account of his youth, not having yet attained his eighteenth year when he enlisted. He was a sergeant in Capt. Woodroofe’s company in the 22nd Regiment, “and one of the best in the regiment,” stated Capt. Woodroofe this morning on being appraised of his death. After going overseas he was transferred to the 13th Imperial Middlesex Regiment. He added to his career as a soldier by being advanced to the rank of lieutenant in the British unit. Lindsay Vogan had a host of friends in Woodstock, who will learn of deep regret of his death. Lieut. L. Vogan was insured at the time of his enlistment by the Oxford Patriotic Association, for $500 in the Imperial Life.
Source: The Daily Sentinel-Review, Woodstock, Ontario – Tuesday May 1, 1917
His brother, Stanley Maxwell Vogan, reg. no. 127730, was killed in action by a shell on November 13, 1916.
The video below is from the Canadian Museum of Nature. This is Lindsay Clarence Vogan’s collection in birds eggs.
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History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 
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