Source: 18th Battalion photograph of “D” Company taken Spring of 1919.
Family Search: When Private James Hal Gosnell was born in 1891, in Ontario, Canada, his father, William Albert Gosnell, was 34 and his mother, Alice Elizabeth Mitton, was 34. He married Gladys Ida McKay on 21 November 1922, in Walkerville, Windsor, Essex, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He immigrated to Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1910 and lived in Kent, Ontario, Canada in 1911 and Blenheim, Kent, Ontario, Canada in 1917. He registered for military service in 1917. In 1917, at the age of 26, his occupation is listed as printer in Blenheim Township, Oxford, Ontario, Canada. He died on 2 December 1926, in Essex, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 35, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Ridgetown, Chatham-Kent, Ontario, Canada
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 