Source: Operation Picture Me via The 18th Battalion Facebook Group. Toronto Telegram April 20, 1916.
Family Search: When Private Bethel Haslam was born on 4 April 1890, in Breightmet, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Haslam, was 54 and his mother, Mary Nelson, was 46. He married Elizabeth Smyth on 7 June 1911, in All Souls’ Church, Bolton, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. He immigrated to Canada in 1913 and lived in Bolton le Moors St Peter, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1911 and Humber Bay, Toronto, Ontario, Canada for about 7 years. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 25, his occupation is listed as labourer in Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada. He died on 5 December 1971, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 81, and was buried in Pine Hills Cemetery, Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 