Source: Bruce Remembers. Served temporarily with the 18th until transferred to the 43rd Battalion.
Family Search: When Private James Albert Abbs was born on 27 September 1894, in Bruce Township, Bruce, Ontario, Canada, his father, Ezekiel Abbs, was 33 and his mother, Emma Florence Kay, was 27. He married Ellen Mary Ann Gregg on 1 August 1942, in Underwood, Kincardine, Bruce, Ontario, Canada. He lived in Ontario, Canada in 1894. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1931, at the age of 36, his occupation is listed as farm laborer in Bruce Township, Bruce, Ontario, Canada. He died on 14 August 1966, in Tiverton, Bruce, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 71, and was buried in Underwood, Kincardine, Bruce, Ontario, Canada.
