Source: 18th Operation Picture Me via The 18th Battalion Facebook Group. London Free Press Circa 1916.
Family Search: When Samuel David Anderson was born about 1887, in Elgin, Rideau Lakes, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada, his father, Jeremiah Judson Anderson, was 44 and his mother, Flora Gillis, was 32. He lived in Elgin, Ontario, Canada in 1901 and London, Ontario, Canada for about 11 years. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 29, his occupation is listed as machine hand in London, Ontario, Canada. He died in 1956, in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 70, and was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, West McGillivray, North Middlesex, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 