Source: Operation Picture Me via The 18th Battalion Facebook Group. London Free Press, Circa 1917.
Find-A-Grave Tentative as of 31 May 2026.
Family Search: When Private Arthur Benjamin Blake was born on 17 February 1898, in Bermondsey, Surrey, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Blake, was 43 and his mother, Sarah Elizabeth Worrell, was 38. He immigrated to Canada in 1913 and lived in Bermondsey, London, England, United Kingdom in 1901 and London, Ontario, Canada in 1916. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1916, at the age of 18, his occupation is listed as shoemaker in London, Ontario, Canada. He died in 1975, at the age of 77, and was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, West McGillivray, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 