Source: Operation Picture Me via The 18th Battalion Facebook Group. London Free Press Circa 1916.
Family Search: When Ralph Leonard Lark was born on 23 May 1889, in Walmer, Kent, England, United Kingdom, his father, James Lark, was 28 and his mother, Caroline Helena Kraatskow, was 32. He married Hilda Rebeckah Stannard on 22 April 1920, in London, Ontario, Canada West, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Gillingham, Kent, England, United Kingdom in 1901. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 26, his occupation is listed as carpenter in London, Ontario, Canada. He died on 7 March 1955, in London, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 65, and was buried in Woodland Cemetery, London, Ontario, Canada.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 