Source: Per 160th Bruce Battalion Facebook Group.
Family Search: When Murdoch Lawrence Gillis was born on 19 June 1899, in Ripley, Bruce, Canada West, British Colonial America, his father, Murdoch Gillis, was 30 and his mother, Mary Mcleod, was 29. He immigrated to Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1923 and lived in Bruce, Ontario, Canada in 1901. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1916, at the age of 17, his occupation is listed as farm labourer. He died in 1962, in Ripley, Bruce, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 63, and was buried in Ripley Huron Cemetery, Ripley, Bruce, Ontario, Canada.
Underage. Born 1899. Family usage of surname was Gillis.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 