Source: August 1918 casualty.
Family Search: When Private John Franklin Witheford was born on 7 May 1894, in Blenheim, Kent, Ontario, Canada, his father, John Edwin Witheford, was 46 and his mother, Phoebe Maria Fellows, was 41. He lived in Kent, Ontario, Canada in 1901. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1916, at the age of 22, his occupation is listed as butcher in Blenheim, Kent, Ontario, Canada. He died on 27 August 1918, in Guémappe, Pas-de-Calais, France, at the age of 24, and was buried in Monchy-le-Preux, Pas-de-Calais, France.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 