Source: 18th Battalion Nominal Roll, April 1915.
Find-A-Grave
Family Search: When Reginald James Crane was born on 5 October 1895, in St. John’s, Newfoundland, his father, Fenwick Crane, was 31 and his mother, Mary Morry, was 33. He married Ellie Gladys Lloyds May Coombs on 12 September 1919, in Uxbridge, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He immigrated to Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1914 and lived in Toledo, Lucas, Ohio, United States in 1930 and Pleasant Ridge, Oakland, Michigan, United States in 1940. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1914, at the age of 19, his occupation is listed as electrician. He died on 25 November 1977, in West Palm Beach, Palm Beach, Florida, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Juno Beach, Palm Beach, Florida, United States.
Friends with Private Victor Dawe, 54241 and one of only two Newfoundlanders to enlist with the original draft of the 18th Battalion.
Emigrated to Cleveland, Ohio post-war. May have lived there before the war.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 