Source: SS Caronia Passenger Manifest. 1919.
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Family Search: When Private Ralph Augustus Kirtley was born on 4 October 1891, in Amherstburg, Essex, Ontario, Canada, his father, Moses Kirtley, was 29 and his mother, Anna Simpson, was 23. He married Dessie on 19 March 1928, in St. Joseph, Indiana, United States. He immigrated to Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1945 and lived in Detroit Ward 16, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1940 and Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States for about 1 years. He registered for military service in 1918. In 1918, at the age of 27, his occupation is listed as chauffeur in Windsor, Sandwich, Essex, Ontario, Canada.More
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Listed at coloured (black). One of three men identified as such by race.
Mr. John Alexander, Teacher.
Back row: Jack Foster, Billy Adams, Rowly Adams, Ralph Kirtley, Hurley Brooker, George McCurdy
2nd row: Raymond McDowell, Lloyd Kirtley, Mabel McCurdy, Ethel McCurdy, Belle Adams, Laverne Kirley, Ethel Alexander, ?
First row: ?. Milton Adams, Grenville Thomas, Rudd McDowell, Bessie Foster, Frances Kirtley, Azalia Kirtley, Zella Taylor, Mamie Simpson, Marg Alexander, Blanche Smith.
Source: Amherstburg Freedom Museum
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 