Source: Comment on 18th Battalion blog by a relative.
Family Search: When Private Alwyne Pearman Bedford was born on 7 August 1894, in Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Harry Bedford, was 24 and his mother, Lousia A. Pearman, was 24. He married Leonora Kelly on 17 April 1928, in Hamilton, Hamilton-Wentworth, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He immigrated to Canada in 1903 and lived in Tillsonburg, Oxford, Ontario, Canada in 1921 and Hamilton, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada in 1921. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1914, at the age of 20, his occupation is listed as farmer. He died on 21 October 1988, in Burlington, Halton, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 94, and was buried in Woodland Cemetery, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Sergeant Aywn “Wyne” Pearman Bedford, reg. no. 53436.
This man, who was a British Home Child, enlisted with the 18th Battalion on 26 October 1914 at Woodstock, Ontario. He was an unmarried farmer who practiced the Anglican faith.
He, along with the rest of the 18th Battalion, trained in London, Ontario until leaving London on 12 April 1915, by train to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where they embarked on the SS Grampian on 17 April, arriving at Avonmouth, England on 29 April.
He trained in England until the Battalion embarked for “overseas” on 15 September 1915 for Belgium.
He was wounded by a GSW to the left shoulder and a bruised back on 10 April 1916 at St. Elois. Sent to No. 6 Canadian Field Ambulance for treatment, he was moved rearward to No. 17 Casualty Clearing Station and placed on No. 15 Medical Train on 11 April 1916. He was then admitted to No. 23 General Hospital on the next day and was treated there until 28 April 1916, aboard the HS Lanfranc.
He was treated in England until he was boarded fit for service and returned to the front. He arrived and No. 2 Canadian Infantry Base Depot, Etaples, on 28 May 1917, thence to the 18th Battalion, joining it “in the field” on 15 June 1917.
He was wounded 2 months later, on 17 August 1917 and was sent to England aboard the AT Brighton on 22 August 1917 with a GSW to the left and right legs.
He was posted to the Western Ontario Regimental Depot and was attached to No. 2 Canadian Convalescent Depot at Bramshott on 21 December 1917.
He was then transferred to the 4th Canadian Reserve Battalion on 8 February 1918 and he was appointed as Acting-Corporal on 17 May 1918.
He was granted a 8 day leave with a free warrant on 21 December 1918.
Returning from this leave, he was appointed as an Acting-Sergeant on 11 February 1919.
He was On Command while on course at the Canadian Special Hospital at Witley on 24 March 1919 and ceased to be on command with that organization effective 1 August 1919 and attached to the Canadian Army Medical Corps.
He served in England until he was struck off strength to Canada on 6 September 1919.
He was discharged on 17 September 1919 in London, Ontario, due to demobilization.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 