Source: Woodstock Public Library via Our Ontario web site.
Family Search: When Private Percival Blackburn was born on 13 July 1884, in York, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas Blackburn, was 33 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Tate, was 27. He married Clara Eleanor Ann Phillips on 8 August 1914, in Woodstock, Oxford, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Battersea, London, England, United Kingdom for about 10 years. He died on 27 September 1927, in Woodstock, Oxford, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 43, and was buried in Anglican Cemetery, Woodstock, Oxford, Ontario, Canada.
Died December 27, 1927 in Woodstock, Ontario. Appeared in Daily Sentinel-Review, 27 Sep 1927, p. 9, column 1.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 