Source: Operation Picture Me via The 18th Battalion Facebook Group. London Free Press Circa 1916.
Family Search: Charles Matthew Hanks was born on 8 January 1896, in Tottenham, London, England, United Kingdom as the son of Matthew Hanks and Eliza Hogg. He lived in London, Ontario, Canada in 1915 and Burnett, Pierce, Washington, United States in 1923. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 19, his occupation is listed as farmer in London, Ontario, Canada. He died on 25 January 1953, in Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Oakwood Memorial Park, Chatsworth, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 