Source: 18th Battalion Nominal Roll, April 1915.
Family Search: When William George Gook was born on 26 May 1890, in Wandsworth, Surrey, England, United Kingdom, his father, Francis Thomas Gook, was 34 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Mason, was 31. He married Germaine Monory on 19 January 1920, in Saint John, St. John, New Brunswick, Canada. He immigrated to Quebec, Quebec, Canada in 1906 and lived in Essex, Ontario, Canada in 1911 and Windsor, Essex, Ontario, Canada in 1967. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1921, at the age of 31, his occupation is listed as accounta, hiram walker and sons in Walkerville, Windsor, Essex, Ontario, Canada. He died on 5 July 1965, in Saint Petersburg, Pinellas, Florida, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Terrace Lawn Cemetery, North Bay, Nipissing, Ontario, Canada.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 