Source: Elgin County Book of Remembrance
Family Search: When Private Ernest George Axford was born on 29 December 1893, in Elgin, Ontario, Canada, his father, Richard Henry Axford, was 44 and his mother, Henrietta Medcraft, was 35. He married Mabel Elizabeth Amy on 13 September 1922, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada, in 1922 and in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in 1966. He registered for military service in 1918. In 1930, his occupation was listed as druggist in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He died in 1966, at the age of 73, and was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 