Source: 153rd Wellington Web Site:
Trade listed as Baker. DOB 3-4-96, born Palmerston. 5 foot 6 1/2 inches. Blue eyes, brown hair. Methodist. NOK Mrs. George Bender, mother. Enlisted Palmerston 12-2-16 (age 19 years). On 153rd Battalion Nominal Roll as published Guelph Mercury 1-12-16. Embarked with 153rd Halifax N.S. SS Olympic 29-4-17. Arrived Liverpool 7-5-17. Assigned 25th Reserve for Training and Administration. Taken on Strength 18th Battalion in the field 8-2-18. Returned to Canada for Discharge aboard SS Caronia, Halifax N.S. 22-5-19. Demobilized 21-5-19, London. Ontario Marriage Registry, married 10-12-24 to Emily Hornsby at Elora. Died 12-5-84. OCFA: buried Elora Municipal Cemetery, Section K,L, M.
File: RG 150, Accession 1992-93/166, Box 637 – 52. Courtesy Library & Archives Canada.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 
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