Source: Operation Picture Me via The 18th Battalion Facebook Group. London Free Press Circa 1917.
Family Search:When Private Francis James Hier was born on 10 November 1896, in London Township, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada, his father, William Hier, was 49 and his mother, Catherine Mary Jenkins, was 32. He married Frances Authier on 16 August 1920, in London, Ontario, Canada. He lived in London, Canada West, British North America in 1911 and London, Ontario, Canada in 1916. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1916, at the age of 20, his occupation is listed as boilermaker’s helper in London, Ontario, Canada. He died on 7 April 1945, in Ontario, Canada, at the age of 48, and was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, West McGillivray, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada.
Military Medal per London Gazette no. 30172. July 9, 1917. Page 6841. “For bravery in the field.”
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 