Source: Documents pertaining to Board of Inquiry into accidental death of Lt. William Ormiston Brown.
Family Search: Lieutenant-Colonel William John Gander was born on 19 March 1885, in Niagara Falls Centre, Niagara Falls, Niagara, Ontario, Canada as the son of William Gander and Isabella May Robinson. He had at least 2 sons with Frances Gertrude Harper. He lived in Niagara Falls, Welland, Ontario, Canada for about 3 years. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 30, his occupation is listed as construction engineer in Niagara Falls, Welland, Ontario, Canada. He died on 22 May 1948, in Brantford, Brant, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 63, and was buried in Victoria Lawn Cemetery, St. Catharines, Niagara, Ontario, Canada.
Wrote a letter regarding Private Albert Fry’s death.
The Toronto Star
Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Wednesday, March 14, 1928.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 
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