Source: Email via Dennis Nelson and attached photo of the 1st Perth Regiment, 1930. From Beacon Herald June 12, 1982.
Family Search: When Private James Harold Farrant was born on 6 December 1897, in Fulham, London, England, United Kingdom, his father, Sanuel Edwin Farrant, was 31 and his mother, Jane Lake, was 30. He married Hilda Amanda Mansz on 26 August 1922, in Stratford, Perth, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He immigrated to Quebec City, Quebec, Canada in 1908. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 18, his occupation is listed as farming in Clinton, Huron, Ontario, Canada. He died on 11 June 1954, in Stratford, Perth, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 56, and was buried in Avondale Cemetery, Stratford, Perth, Ontario, Canada.
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History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 