Family Search: When Private William Webb was born on 8 December 1894, in Corsham, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Isaac Webb, was 39 and his mother, Eliza Barnett, was 40. He immigrated to Canada in 1913 and lived in Woodstock, Oxford, Ontario, Canada in 1916. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1916, at the age of 22, his occupation is listed as carpenter in Woodstock, Oxford, Ontario, Canada. He died on 9 July 1917, in Barlin, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France, at the age of 22, and was buried in Aix-Noulette, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 
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