Source: Searching for a Sergeant Woodcock mentioned in January 1917 War Diary.
Family Search: When Private William Wilson Woodcock was born on 7 January 1894, in Faraday Township, Hastings, Ontario, Canada, his father, Gilbert Woodcock, was 23 and his mother, Mary Louisa Creighton, was 21. He lived in Hastings, Ontario, Canada in 1911. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1916, at the age of 22, his occupation is listed as labourer. He died on 28 August 1918, in Vis-en-Artois, Pas-de-Calais, France, at the age of 24, and was buried in Chérisy, Pas-de-Calais, France.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 