Source: Operation Picture Me via The 18th Battalion Facebook Group. London Free Press Circa 1916.
Family Search: When George Edward Bowman was born on 30 July 1889, in London Township, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada, his father, George Sargent Bowman, was 29 and his mother, Mary Anne Poole, was 28. He lived in Middlesex, Ontario, Canada in 1901. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 26, his occupation is listed as carriage and sign writer in London, Ontario, Canada. He died on 14 April 1955, in London, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 65, and was buried in Woodland Cemetery, London, Ontario, Canada.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 