Source: Duty Nobly Done, page 254. Taken on strength on November 27, 1917.
Family Search: When Lieutenant Reginald Ernest Lawrance was born in March 1884, in Holloway, London, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Lawrance, was 28 and his mother, Sarah A. Puttock, was 30. He married Mary Anna Coffee on 17 July 1942, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He immigrated to Canada in 1899 and lived in Streatham, London, England, United Kingdom in 1901 and Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in 1922. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1942, at the age of 58, his occupation is listed as guard, canadian pacific railway police in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He died on 25 November 1978, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, at the age of 94, and was buried in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Later a lieutenant. Wounded August 28th, 1918. War Diary often spells his surname “Lawrence”.
See the marriage certificate re. Nova Scotia Marriage registrations – Nova Scotia (various counties), no. 68088-68944, 1932.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 