Source: 18th Battalion Nominal Roll, April 1915.
Family Search: When Wilfrid George Kingsbury was born on 8 April 1890, in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas George Kinsbury, was 48 and his mother, Annie Kinsbury, was 40. He married Ivy Wilcox in 1920, in Paddington, London, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He immigrated to Canada in 1913 and lived in Walkerton, Bruce, Ontario, Canada in 1921. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1914, at the age of 24, his occupation is listed as woodworker in Walkerton, Bruce, Ontario, Canada. He died in 1974, at the age of 84, and was buried in Oldcastle, Tecumseh, Essex, Ontario, Canada.MORE
This soldier disembarked at Harve, France on September 14, 1915. Possibly one of the men who jumped aboard a Royal Naval destroyer that collided with their padde-wheeled steamer when they were leaving Folkestone.
Note: the Walkerton Telescope has 32 name instances for this soldier in its 1914 to 1918 editions. See PDF files and search for Kingsbury.
Walkerton Telescope. June 8, 1916. Page 1.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 