Digitized Service Record
Source: SS Caronia Passenger Manifest. 1919.
Find-A-Grave
Family Search: When Private John Howarth was born on 31 May 1882, in Bury, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Howarth, was 40 and his mother, Elizabeth, was 39. He married Nellie Duxbury on 15 January 1908, in Bury, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Walkerville, Windsor, Essex, Ontario, Canada in 1916. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 33, his occupation is listed as moulder in Windsor, Sandwich, Essex, Ontario, Canada. He died in 1931, in Ontario, Canada, at the age of 49, and was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, West McGillivray, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 