Source: Per Grosvenor service record.
Family Search: When Corporal John Alexander Egan was born on 14 February 1888, in Kingston, Frontenac, Ontario, Canada, his father, John Egan, was 26 and his mother, Elizabeth Sarah Jane Newman, was 21. He married Agnes Gertrude Sullivan on 6 June 1923, in Hamilton, Hamilton-Wentworth, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years and Hamilton, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada in 1922. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 27, his occupation is listed as machinist toolmaker in Hamilton, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada. He died on 1 October 1977, in Hamilton, Hamilton-Wentworth, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 89, and was buried in Holy Sepulchre Catholic Cemetery, Burlington, Halton, Ontario, Canada.
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History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 