Source: 18th Battalion Nominal Roll, April 1915.
Family Search: When Private William T. Ford was born on 27 September 1893, in Stratton, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Cornish Ford, was 28 and his mother, Emily Venner, was 19. He lived in Bude, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom in 1911. He died on 6 January 1919, in St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 25, and was buried in St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 