Source: Allan Miller via the 149th Battalion CEF – The Lambtons Facebook Group.
Find-A-Grave: This man appears to have drowned on or about 12 November 1933.
Family Search: When Private Elias James was born on 18 March 1892, in Sarnia, Lambton, Ontario, Canada, his father, Luke James, was 38 and his mother, Susan Jackson, was 41. He married Lena James on 10 June 1914, in Sarnia, Lambton, Ontario, Canada. He lived in Lambton, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 23, his occupation is listed as labourer in Sarnia, Lambton, Ontario, Canada. He died about 12 November 1933, at the age of 41, and was buried in Aamjiwnaang First Nations Cemetery, Sarnia, Lambton, Ontario, Canada.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 