Source: SS Caronia Passenger Manifest. 1919.
Family Search: When Lance Corporal Ernest Alfred “Ernie” Dolson was born on 4 June 1894, in Hespeler, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, his father, William Dolson, was 21 and his mother, Henrietta Kudoba, was 20. He married Elaine “Ivy” Gatehouse on 10 December 1921, in Preston, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years and Galt, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in 1916. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1916, at the age of 22, his occupation is listed as teamster in Galt, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He died on 26 January 1972, in Grimsby, Lincoln, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 77, and was buried in Memory Gardens, Breslau, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 