Source: 18th Battalion Nominal Roll, April 1915.
Family Search: When Private Joseph Edward Arrowsmith was born on 25 September 1886, in Saint John, St. John, New Brunswick, Canada, his father, Joseph Edward Arrowsmith, was 40 and his mother, Elizabeth Pattison, was 35. He married Hazel Alma Thorne on 25 September 1926, in Saint John, St. John, New Brunswick, Canada. He lived in New Brunswick, Canada in 1886 and Queen’s Ward, Saint John, St. John, New Brunswick, Canada in 1891. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1914, at the age of 28, his occupation is listed as spring fitter. He died on 9 May 1947, in Saint John, St. John, New Brunswick, Canada, at the age of 60, and was buried in Fernhill Cemetery, Saint John, St. John, New Brunswick, Canada.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 