Source: 18th Battalion Nominal Roll, April 1915.
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Family Search: John David Stirling Fleek was born on 29 April 1893, in Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales, United Kingdom. He immigrated to Canada in 1913 and lived in Palmerston Township, Frontenac, Ontario, Canada in 1920 and Birtle, Prairie View, Manitoba, Canada in 1921. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1914, at the age of 21, his occupation is listed as farmer. He died on 19 January 1959, in Hollinwood, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 65.
Listed on Nominal Roll with reg. no. 53797 but listed at LAC database under rank of captain. Served with the 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 