Family Search: When Sergeant Harold John Clement Gellatly was born on 2 June 1892, in Herne Hill, Surrey, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Frederick Gellatly, was 28 and his mother, Edith Agnes Sparrowe, was 29. He married Pearl Irene Eagle in 1916, in Camberwell, London, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Camberwell, London, England, United Kingdom for about 10 years. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1914, at the age of 22, his occupation is listed as shoemaker. He died on 19 September 1979, in Kitchener, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 87, and was buried in Woodland Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Meritorious Service Medal per London Gazette No. 31684. 9 December 1919. Pg. 15464.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 