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Family Search: When Russell George Lavelle was born on 3 May 1896, in Durham, Ontario, Canada, his father, James Anthony Lavelle, was 39 and his mother, Catherine Richards, was 38. He had at least 1 daughter with Marie Werschem. He lived in Stratford, Perth, Ontario, Canada in 1919. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 19, his occupation is listed as stenographer in Stratford, Perth, Ontario, Canada. He died on 11 November 1979, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, at the age of 83.
Brother to William Anthony, Lewis Edward and Leonard Stanslau Lavelle.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 
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