Source: Letter dated February 17, 1917 but Private Nicholas Scott, reg. no. 195861.
Family Search: When Private Lewis John Drain was born on 13 July 1893, in Dummer, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, his father, James Drain, was 27 and his mother, Jane Ann Robinson, was 22. He married Fannie Smith on 19 April 1922, in Dummer, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada in 1911. He died on 21 October 1979, in Havelock, Havelock-Belmont-Methuen, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 86, and was buried in Maple Grove Cemetery, Havelock, Havelock-Belmont-Methuen, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 