Source: Operation Picture Me via The 18th Battalion Facebook Group. London Free Press Circa 1916.
Family Search: When Edward James Cushman was born on 6 September 1889, in Lobo, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada, his father, Edward James Cushman, was 25 and his mother, Sarah E Barney, was 25. He married Margaret McIntosh on 31 July 1919, in Melbourne, Strathroy-Caradoc, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada. He lived in Middlesex, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years and London, Ontario, Canada in 1915. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 26, his occupation is listed as labourer in London, Ontario, Canada. He died in 1938, at the age of 49, and was buried in Oakland Cemetery, London, Ontario, Canada.
Date of Birth: 6 September 1889.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 