Source: Per research by 160th Battalion Facebook Group. Confirmed served with 18th Battalion.
Family Search: When Private Dawson Albert Cole was born on 22 December 1886, in Roughton, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Cole, was 28 and his mother, Elizabeth Payne, was 25. He had at least 2 sons and 1 daughter with Rose Turner. He immigrated to Canada in 1910. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1916, at the age of 30, his occupation is listed as railway section man in Chesley, Bruce, Ontario, Canada. He died on 17 October 1964, in Chesley, Bruce, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 77, and was buried in Chesley Cemetery, Chesley, Bruce, Ontario, Canada.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 