Source: SS Caronia Passenger Manifest. 1919.
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Family Search: When Private Joseph Ernest Akitt was born on 23 November 1897, in Melancthon Township, Dufferin, Ontario, Canada, his father, Joseph Albert Akitt, was 32 and his mother, Mary Ann Davison, was 39. He had at least 2 sons with Jean Bennett Peebles. He lived in Kitchener, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in 1919 and Edmonton, Alberta, Canada in 1933. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1950, at the age of 53, his occupation is listed as western regional manager, marketing department, esso in Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada. He died on 27 August 1954, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 56, and was buried in York Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
AKA Ernest Joseph Akitt, E. J. Akitt, J. E. Akitt.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 