Source: SS Caronia Passenger Manifest. 1919.
Family Search: When Private Clayton Crossley Kreason was born on 21 April 1898, in Galt, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, his father, John Boehmer Kreasan, was 39 and his mother, Mary Margaret Albright, was 26. He married Leona Maude Cook on 30 March 1929, in Monroe, New York, United States. He immigrated to New York, United States in 1923 and lived in Preston, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in 1916 and Greece, Monroe, New York, United States in 1950. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1916, at the age of 18, his occupation is listed as tinsmith in Preston, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He died on 6 November 1962, in Rochester, Monroe, New York, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Garland Cemetery, Clarkson, Monroe, New York, United States.
This man was an avid bowler and went by the name Sam. Several articles in the Rochester, New York newspaper relating his achivments.
KREASON, CLAYTON CROSSLEY 730589
This man enlisted with the 111th Battalion at Preston, Ontario on 6 March 1916.
He, along with this battalion, was shipped to England for training and he arrived at Liverpool on 8 October 1916 aboard the SS Tuscania.
He was transferred to a series of reserve battalions until he was transferred for active combat duty with the 18th Battalion.
He was sent “overseas” and arrived at the 18th Battalion “in the field “on 2 May 1917.
He served with the 18th Battalion until he was discharged due to demobilization on 24 May 1919 at London, Ontario.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 