Source: 18th Battalion Nominal Roll, April 1915.
Family Search: When Sergeant Charles Aloysius Carton was born on 28 February 1892, in Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland, his father, Edward Carton, was 41 and his mother, Mary Furlong Carton, was 36. He immigrated to San Francisco, California, United States, in 1934 and lived in Dalkey, County Dublin, Ireland, in 1901 and Windsor, Essex, Ontario, Canada, in 1919. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1914, at the age of 22, his occupation was listed as a labourer. He died on 20 April 1957, in Alameda, California, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in San Bruno, San Mateo, California, United States.
Discharged from CEF for wounds at St. Eloi in 1917, he later enlisted in the U.S. Army and earned the D.S.C.
This man saw service with the 18th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force. He was assigned the regimental number of 53441.
He enlisted at Woodstock, Ontario on 26 October 1914.
He served with the 18th Battalion until he was wounded with a GSW to the chest on 2 March 1916. He was sent to England for treatment and was returned to Canada due to his wounds on 18 October 1916.
He was discharged due to medical reasons at Bath, England on 6 October 1916
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 