Source: SS Caronia Passenger Manifest. 1919.
Family Search: When Private Daniel Willis Jespers Carter was born on 26 April 1896, in Windsor, Essex, Ontario, Canada, his father, James Robert Carter, was 27 and his mother, Matilda Jean Chambers, was 23. He had at least 3 sons and 3 daughters with Mable Eva Nolan. He lived in Windsor, Essex, Canada West, British Colonial America in 1918 and Sandwich West Township, Essex, Ontario, Canada in 1931. He registered for military service in 1918. In 1918, at the age of 22, his occupation is listed as plasterer in Windsor, Sandwich Township, Essex, Ontario, Canada. He died on 15 August 1964, in Windsor, Essex, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 68, and was buried in Victoria Memorial Gardens, Oldcastle, Tecumseh, Essex, Ontario, Canada.
One of the few black soldiers that is identified to have served with the 18th Battalion.
Willis Daniel Jespers Carter joined the CEF under the MSA on 4 January 1918 at London, Ontario with the 1st Depot Battalion, Western Ontario Regiment. He stood 5″ 9.5″; had 20/20 vision, and normal hearing.
He embarked the HMT Cretia at Halifax, Ontario on 21 February 1918 and arrived at England on 4 March 1918. He then was TOS with the 4th Canadian Reserve Battalion at Bramshott the next day.
He trained there until he proceeded overseas for active duty with the 18th Battlion on 28 October 1918. He arrived the next day at the Canadian Infantry Base Depot and was despatched fro the Canadian Corp Reinforment Camp on 1 November 1918. Eight days later (9 November 1918) he arrived “in the field”.
Hostilities ceased 11 November 1918 and Private Carter served with the 18th Battalion in Germany as part of its role as a post-war occupation force.
He had a spot of treatment for a common social disease between 7 and 12 March 1919 and returned to the 18th and sailed with them aboard the SS Caronia leaving Liverpool on 15 May 1919 and he was discharged with the 18th at London, Ontario on 24 May 1919.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 