Source: Gathering Our Heroes
Family Search: When Private Alfred Henry Jewiss was born on 2 November 1896, in St. Catharines, Lincoln, Ontario, Canada, his father, Charles Thomas Jewiss, was 33 and his mother, Jessie Henderson, was 30. He married May Victoria Young on 18 June 1920, in Chatham, Kent, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Kent, Ontario, Canada in 1911 and Chatham, Kent, Ontario, Canada for about 16 years. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1931, at the age of 35, his occupation is listed as truck driver. He died in 1950, at the age of 54, and was buried in Maple Leaf Cemetery, Chatham, Chatham-Kent, Ontario, Canada.
This man had two sons serve in the Canadian Forces in World War 2. His son, Edmund was killed in action in Italy.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 