Source: Operation Picture Me via The 18th Battalion Facebook Group. London Free Press Circa 1916.
Family Search: Private James McEwan Haldane was born on 9 January 1890, in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom as the son of James Haldane and Catherine Smith. He had at least 2 sons with Catherine Smith. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 25, his occupation is listed as mechanic in London, Ontario, Canada. He died on 2 July 1969, in London, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 79, and was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, West McGillivray, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 