Source: Undocumented
Family Search: Private Benjamin Greaves was born on 23 April 1887, in Oldham, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom as the son of James William Greaves and Alice Taylor. He married Margaret Longworth on 24 April 1909, in Hamilton, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Hamilton, Hamilton-Wentworth, Ontario, Canada in 1931 and Hamilton, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada in 1934. In 1931, at the age of 44, his occupation is listed as tinsmith in Hamilton, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada. He died on 4 July 1950, in Ontario, Canada, at the age of 63, and was buried in Woodland Cemetery, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Benjamin Greaves, of 226 Burlington Street East, died yesterday at the General Hospital in his sixty-third year. An employee of the T. Eaton Co., he came to this city from his native England 40 years ago. In the First Great War, Mr. Greaves served with the 18th Battalion. He leaves his wife, the former Annie Preston; three sons, William, John and Leonard, all of Hamilton; and two daughters, Mrs. Margaret Barrett, of Hannon, and Mrs. Violet Sutherland of this city; also six grandchildren. A son, Thomas, was killed in the Dieppe raid in the last war. Service will be held at Truscott Brothers’ Funeral Home, Barton Street at Birch Avenue Friday afternoon at 1.30 o’clock with interment following in Woodland Cemetery.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 