Source: April 1916 KIA
Family Search: When Private Charles J. W. Wilson was born on 2 February 1888, in Thorold, Welland, Ontario, Canada, his father, Thomas Wilson, was 23 and his mother, Sarah Jane Margaret Channell, was 22. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 27, his occupation is listed as rodman. He died on 2 April 1916, in Ieper, West Flanders, Belgium, at the age of 28, and was buried in Voormezele, Ieper, West Flanders, Belgium.
This soldier enlisted with the 36th Battalion at Hamiton, Ontario on April 17, 1915. Transported overseas to England he served there until transferred to the 18th Battalion on November 21, 195. He arrived in the field on November 24, 1915. He served with the Battalion until killed in action on April 2, 1916. It is noted in his service record he was “Blown to pieces by an H.E. shell.”
09 Jul 1910, Sat ·Page 1. Article about his father’s drowning.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 