Source: Per notice of promotion in the service record of Wilfred Bowley. Reg. no. 409271.
Family Search: When Corporal William Ernest Harrison was born in December 1873, in Wilmslow, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Ephraim Harrison, was 28 and his mother, Emma Lane, was 28. He married Adeline Agnes Marion McGuire on 17 February 1919, in London, Canada West, British North America. He immigrated to Canada in 1913 and lived in Millington, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom, in 1891 and London, Ontario, Canada in 1924. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 42, his occupation is listed as a shipper in London, Ontario, Canada. He died on 20 May 1950, in Brantford, Brant, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 76, and was buried in London Township, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada.
Private Ernest William Harrison, reg. no. 123915.
This man enlisted with the 70th Overseas Battalion on 25 September 1915, at London, Ontario. He was a single shipper of the Anglican faith.
He shipped overseas with the 70th Battalion aboard the SS Lapland, leaving Halifax, Nova Scotia on 26 April 1916, arriving at Liverpool on 5 May 1916.
He was transferred to the 39th Battalion on 10 July 1916 and was then drafted to the 18th Battalion on or about 10 August 1916.
He arrived at No. 1 Canadian Base Depot at Harve, France, on 12 August 1916, and was then transferred to the 18th Battalion, arriving “in the field” on 17 September 1916.
Harrison was appointed as a Lance-Corporal on 9 April 1917, as Lance-Corporal C.R. Belcher (123194) was missing in action.
He earned a 10-day leave to England effective 30 October 1917, and on his return, he was promoted to Corporal as Corporal H. Slaughter had been killed in action.
Almost a year passed when Corporal Harrison was wounded in action with a GSW to his left leg on 8 August 1918, and he was sent to No. 2 Canadian General Hospital on the same day. He was slated for transport to England and on the 12th, he boarded the AT St. David for England.
He was treated in England and was released from the hospital, and sailed for Canada on 7 December 1918.
He was discharged at London, Ontario, on 15 January 1919 due to demobilization.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 