Source: Gathering of Heroes
Family Search: When Alfred John Blackburn was born on 25 May 1894, in Chatham, Chatham-Kent, Ontario, Canada, his father, Joseph Alexander Blackburn, was 33 and his mother, Anna Emma Corbin, was 20. He married Madge Longbottom on 10 September 1921, in Chatham, Kent, Ontario, Canada. He lived in Kent, Ontario, Canada in 1901 and Kent, Georgian Highlands, Grey, Ontario, Canada in 1911. In 1921, at the age of 27, his occupation is listed as labourer in Chatham, Kent, Ontario, Canada. He died on 24 April 1945, in London, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 50, and was buried in Maple Leaf Cemetery, Chatham, Chatham-Kent, Ontario, Canada.
013160-21 (Kent Co) Alfred John BLACKBURN, 27, labourer, Chatham, RR1 Chatham, s/o Joseph BLACKBURN b. Kent Co. & Annie CORBIN, married Madge LONGBOTTOM, 19, olive packer, Shadwell near Leeds England, RR1 Chatham, d/o George LONGBOTTOM b. Yorkshire Eng. & Henrietta ANDREW, witn: George G. LONGBOTTOM, Henrietta LONGBOTTOM, both of RR1 Chatham, 10 September 1921 at Chatham
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 
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