Source: Operation Picture Me via The 18th Battalion Facebook Group. London Free Press Circa 1917.
Family Search: When Leonard James Clare was born on 12 February 1893, in London, Ontario, Canada West, British Colonial America, his father, James Clare, was 38 and his mother, Mary Burleigh, was 27. He had at least 1 son and 3 daughters with Gladys Irene Boughner. He lived in London, Ontario, Canada for about 9 years. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 22, his occupation is listed as shipper in London, Ontario, Canada. He died in 1976, at the age of 83, and was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, West McGillivray, North Middlesex, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada.MORE
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 