Source: Gathering Our Heroes
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Family Search: When Private Wilbur Henry Johnson was born on 12 September 1900, in Kent, Ontario, Canada, his father, Charles Henry Johnson, was 31 and his mother, Edna Bertha Ward, was 21. He married Alice Gertrude Martin on 7 October 1937, in London, Ontario, Canada. He lived in Blenheim Township, Oxford, Ontario, Canada in 1916 and Springfield, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada in 1922. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1916, at the age of 16, his occupation is listed as farming in Blenheim Township, Oxford, Ontario, Canada.
This soldier joined underage. He is recorded of being born on September 12, 1900, at Harwich, Kent, Ontario, Canada. Birth surname is “Johnson”. Information lists his father as Charles.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 