Digitized Service Record
Source: Found while reviewing his brother’s Soldier’s Page.
Family Search: When Private Willard Havelock Milton Conlin was born on 13 November 1896, in East Garafraxa Township, Dufferin, Ontario, Canada, his father, Thomas Conlin, was 43 and his mother, Elizabeth Ross, was 33. He married Florence Luella Johnston on 22 September 1923, in Ontario, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Ontario, Canada in 1896 and Wellington, Ontario, Canada in 1901. He died in 1982, at the age of 86, and was buried in Fergus, Centre Wellington, Wellington, Ontario, Canada.
153rd Wellington: Trade listed as Farmer. DOB 13-11-96, born West Garafraxa. 6 foot 1 inch. Brown eyes, dark brown hair. Methodist. NOK Thomas Conlin, father. Elizabeth Conlin, mother. Brother to 928189 Harry Ross Conlin. Enlisted Fergus 18-1-16 (age 19 years 1 month). On 153rd Battalion Nominal Roll as published Guelph Mercury 1-12-16. Embarked with the 153rd Halifax N.S. SS Olympic 29-4-17. Arrived Liverpool 7-5-17. Assigned 25th Reserve for Training and Administration. Taken on Strength 18th Battalion 18-12-17. Hospitalized 10-1-18, German Measles. Returned to Canadian Reinforcements 27-2-18. Taken on Strength 18th Battalion in the field 8-8-18. Wounded 28-8-18, GSW right knee and tibia. Globe & Mail Casualty List 8-9-18 under Infantry reports wounded. Returned to Canada SS Aquitania 25-5-19. Demobilized Toronto 27-5-19. Died 1982 buried Belsyde Cemetery Fergus, headstone photo courtesy B. Gilbert. Photo ph15588 courtesy Wellington County Museum & Archives.
File: RG 150, Accession 1992-93/166, Box 1908 – 53, courtesy of Library & Archives Canada.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 