Family Search: When Company Sergeant Major Eli Watts was born on 2 October 1891, in Galt, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, his father, Eli Watts, was 37 and his mother, Esther Jane Kitson, was 30. He lived in Ontario, Canada in 1891 and Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in 1901. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1914, at the age of 23, his occupation is listed as butcher in Galt, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He died on 15 September 1916, in Courcelette, Somme, Picardie, France, at the age of 24.
Photo of Eli Watts – In memory of the men and women from the Waterloo area who went to war and did not come home. From the booklet, Peace Souvenir – Activities of Waterloo County in the Great War 1914 – 1918. From the Toronto Public Library collection. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
Photo of Eli Watts – Serg’t Maj. Eli Watts, 18th Batt. [Symbol of cross] Somme Sept. 15 1916. A portrait by the U.S.A. Studios, London.
News clipping from the London Free Press – May 3, 1916.
“Sergt. Eli Watts, a Galt man with a Western Ontario battalion, writing to his mother here, sends the news that Pte. Emerson Broadwell, who enlisted in Galt, and who was in February reported missing and later killed, is a prisoner of war in Germany and is well. Sergt. Watts and Pte. Broadwell were in the same battalion and Pte. Broadwell was given up for dead.”
London Free Press – May 3rd, 1916
Cheery Letters From Boys of Eighteenth Battalion. Galt Daily Reporter. May 27 ,1915 Page 12.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 
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