Source: 18th Battalion Nominal Roll, April 1915.
Family Search: When Private Edwin Rawley Brookes was born on 28 August 1892, in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, George Brookes, was 41 and his mother, Emma Rawley, was 33. He married Alice Elizabeth Brand on 26 August 1921, in London, Canada West, British North America. He immigrated to Portland, Cumberland, Maine, United States in 1907 and lived in Nottawasaga Township, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada in 1911 and London, Ontario, Canada in 1921. He registered for military service in 1914. He died on 14 February 1960, at the age of 67, and was buried in Woodland Cemetery, London, Ontario, Canada.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 