Source: Per record of promotion of Mearl Letts, reg. no. 53246.
Family Search: When Private Frederich George Ferris was born on 17 June 1894, in Croydon, London, England, United Kingdom, his father, George Ferris, was 33 and his mother, Mary A. Hiles, was 28. He married Evelyn Sarah Manning on 12 February 1918, in Sarnia, Lambton, Ontario, Canada. He immigrated to Canada in 1913 and lived in Croydon, Surrey, England, United Kingdom in 1911. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1914, at the age of 20, his occupation is listed as brickmaker in Sarnia, Lambton, Ontario, Canada. He died on 26 November 1974, in Sarnia, Lambton, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 80, and was buried in Sarnia, Lambton, Ontario, Canada.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 