Source: Elgin Book of Remembrance
Family Search: When Lance-Corporal William Asher was born on 11 December 1887, in Great Gonerby, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Asher, was 34 and his mother, Sarah Dodd, was 33. He had at least 1 son and 1 daughter with Alice E. Cooke. He lived in St. Thomas, Elgin, Ontario, Canada in 1921. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1914, at the age of 27, his occupation is listed as stationary engineer in St. Thomas, Elgin, Ontario, Canada. He died on 25 April 1939, in Stratford, Perth, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 51, and was buried in Avondale Cemetery, Stratford, Perth, Ontario, Canada.
Worked at Alma College, St. Thomas, Ontario before and after the war.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 