Family Search: When Private John Wesley Cragg was born on 14 December 1892, in Dresden, Kent, Ontario, Canada, his father, John Austin Cragg, was 24 and his mother, Adelia A Hooktwith, was 20. He married Gladys Marion Hawley on 10 July 1920, in Chatham, Kent, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Kent, Ontario, Canada in 1911 and Chatham, Kent, Ontario, Canada in 1916. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1924, his occupation is listed as stationary engineer, john wyeth and brother in Windsor, Essex, Ontario, Canada. He died on 4 February 1969, in Windsor, Essex, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 76, and was buried in Victoria Memorial Gardens, Windsor, Essex, Ontario, Canada.
Though enlisted as John Leslie Cragg this man’s middle name is Wesley.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 
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