Source: Per email with news clipping from Jim Kelly.
Family Search: When Private Francis Jacob Batte was born on 15 July 1896, in Walkerton, Bruce, Ontario, Canada, his father, Albert Batte, was 34 and his mother, Clara Schefter, was 24. He married Ellen Sarah Nugent on 7 August 1927, in Hamilton, Hamilton-Wentworth, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He immigrated to Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1923 and lived in Bruce, Ontario, Canada in 1911 and Walkerville, Windsor, Essex, Ontario, Canada in 1931. He registered for military service in 1918. In 1918, at the age of 22, his occupation is listed as machinist in Windsor, Sandwich, Essex, Ontario, Canada. He died on 7 August 1970, in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 74, and was buried in Holy Sepulchre Catholic Cemetery, Burlington, Halton, Ontario, Canada.
23451-27 Francis Jacob BATTE, 31, machinist, Walkerton Ont., Windsor, s/o Albert BATE & Clara SCHEFTER, married Ellen Sarah NUGENT, 30, Hamilton, same, d/o Arthur NUGENT & Anna CONNORS, witn: Thomas & Monica NUGENT of Bartonville, 22 Aug 1927 at Hamilton.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 