Source: Blog Post re. Windsor Star news clipping circa October 1916.
Family Search: When Sergeant Richard Drew was born on 13 January 1888, in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States, his father, Alfred Wesley Drew, was 31 and his mother, Theresa Louise Fauser, was 27. He married Annie Ethel MacDonald on 11 April 1917, in Prestwich, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. He lived in Detroit Ward 17, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1920 and Detroit Ward 2, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1940. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1926, his occupation is listed as teacher, cass technical high school in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States. He died on 22 March 1958, in Lake Orion, Oakland, Michigan, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States.
Born U.S.A.
American Citizen. Wounded at the Somme and then returned to Canada. Released from Canadian service so he could join the American Expeditionary Forces.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 