Source: Per accident inquiry of the accidental wounding of Private Reginald Skeggs, reg. no. 802205.
Family Search: When William Russell Devlin was born on 7 August 1895, in London Township, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada, his father, William Thomas Devlin, was 35 and his mother, Henrietta Blake, was 38. He lived in London, Ontario, Canada West, British Colonial America in 1911 and London, Ontario, Canada in 1915. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 20, his occupation is listed as lithographer in London, Ontario, Canada. He died on 5 January 1945, in London Township, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 49, and was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, West McGillivray, North Middlesex, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 