Source: Poem in London Advertiser. Transferred to C.A.S.
Family Search: SQMS Thomas Austin Cresswell was born on 23 October 1880, in Walton, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom as the son of James George Cresswell and Mary Gillingham. He immigrated to Canada in 1913 and lived in London, Ontario, Canada in 1919 and Victoria, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada in 1921. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1915, at the age of 35, his occupation is listed as salesman. He died on 3 December 1959, in Saanich, British Columbia, Canada, at the age of 79, and was buried in Veterans Cemetery, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.MORE
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 