Source: 18th Battalion Nominal Roll, April 1915.
Family Search: Private Alfred James Blowers was born on 31 October 1890, in Lowestoft, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom. He married Ethel Mildred Scroggie on 15 June 1918, in Brantford, Ontario, Canada. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1914, at the age of 24, his occupation is listed as farm labourer. He was buried in Emily Cemetery, Omemee, Kawartha Lakes, Ontario, Canada.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 