Source: SS Caronia Passenger Manifest. 1919.
Family Search: When Private Alfred William Brightwell was born on 11 February 1885, in Norwich, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom, his father, Edward Brightwell, was 20 and his mother, Eliza Rebecca Ringer, was 20. He married Edith Ann LATEY on 25 September 1912. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Brampton, Peel, Ontario, Canada in 1916 and Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada in 1931. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1916, at the age of 31, his occupation is listed as shoe cutter in Brampton, Peel, Ontario, Canada. He died on 22 September 1965, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 80, and was buried in Prospect Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
QMS Champs, 18th Battalion
Fosses, Belgium
Rear:
54021 Norman Huck of Walkerton, Ontario enlisted 1th Battalion, Walkerton, 31 October 1914.
53470 Harry Stansfield of St. Thomas, Ontario enlisted 18th Battalion, St. Thomas, 2 November 1914.
Wallace
53908 William Stephen Farr of Galt enlisted with 18th Battalion, Galt, 23 October 1914.
Centre:
775918 Alfred William Brightwell of Brampton, Ontario enlisted 126th Battalion, Brampton, 1 March 1916.
54005 Herbert Cartwright of Walkerton enlisted 18th Battalion, Walkerton 30 October 1914.
Sheppard
Front:
53950 James Patient of Galt enlisted 18th Battalion, Galt, 23 October 1914.
53976 Thomas Wade of Galt enlisted 18th Battalion, Galt, 26 October 1914.
54220 Bertram Croome of RR #1 Science Hill, Ontario enlisted 18th Battalion, London,16 February 1915.
Boyd
53656 Robert Henry Brackstone of Aylmer, Ontario enlisted 18th Battalion, St. Thomas, 26 October 1914.
Source: Ley and Lois Smith War, Memory, and Popular Culture Research Collection – Western University. Via DM at Facebook.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 