Source: 18th Battalion Nominal Roll, April 1915.
Family Search: When Private Charles John Cavendish Echlin was born on 23 January 1895, in Dublin, Ireland, his father, Charles J. Echlin, was 39 and his mother, Margaret Helen Rea, was 26. He married Ivy Lilian Wainwright in 1916, in Elham, Kent, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada for about 2 years and Weston, Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1957. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1914, at the age of 19, his occupation is listed as clerk. He died on 4 July 1961, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 66, and was buried in Sanctuary Park Cemetery, Etobicoke, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Private Charles John Cavendish Echlin, reg. no. 53222.
This man enlisted with the 18th Battalion at Windsor, Ontario on 24 October 1914.
At the time of attestation he was a clerk following the Anglican faith.
He is assigned the rank of private but in other documents he is designated as a bugler.
He arrived in England on 29 April 1915 aboard the SS Grampian and began the next stage of his training at West Sandling Camp along with the rest of the 2nd Canadian Contingent (Division).
During his service in England he forfeited 4 day’s pay for being AWL on 13 August 1915 and was returned to duty from Bugler on 1 September 1915
The 2nd Contingent, along with the 18th Battalion, embarked for Belgium on 15 September 1915 and arrived for service in the front line 23 September 1915 to begin their tour of service which ended in March 1919.
He is wounded 25 December 1915 with a GSW to the chest and arrives at the St. John’s Ambulance Brigade Hospital at Etaples, France. By 2 January 1916 he is England and being treated at the Unitary Hospital at Canterbury.
On 11 January 1916 he is transferred to the 36th Battalion at West Sandling and is transferred to several medical facilities until he is transferred to the Canadian Casualty Assembly Centre to be assessed for future duty with the CEF.
On 30 March 1916 he is given permission to marry. He marries a Ivy Lilliam Wainwright, who will later divorce him circa 1929.
He is transferred and eventually is assigned to the Central Ontario Regimental Depot and works as a clerk.
He is discharged in the British Isles on 29 July 1919 and eventually returns to Canada.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 