Digitized Service Record
Source: 18th Battalion Medal list in booklet.
Find-A-Grave
Family Search: When Private Frederick Fairbanks was born on 18 December 1896, in Beachville, Oxford, Ontario, Canada, his father, Samuel Fairbanks, was 37 and his mother, Sarah Ann Merrill, was 23. He married Edith Frances Nicholls on 20 August 1923, in Windsor, Essex, Ontario, Canada. He lived in Woodstock, Oxford, Ontario, Canada in 1916 and Windsor, Essex, Ontario, Canada in 1920. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1930, his occupation is listed as machinist in Windsor, Essex, Ontario, Canada. He died on 21 April 1952, in Roseland, Windsor, Essex, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 55, and was buried in Greenlawn Memorial Gardens, Oldcastle, Essex, Ontario, Canada.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 