Source: In Khaki Blenheim and Vicinity. Published by the Blenheim News-Tribune, Blenheim, Ont. Canada. December 1917. Snip for 18th Battalion Facebook Group Contribution by a member.
Family Search: When Private Christopher Carruthers Lupton was born on 10 January 1888, in Annan, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, Richard Lupton, was 23 and his mother, Mary Carruthers, was 24. He had at least 3 sons and 5 daughters with Mary Jane Riley. He immigrated to Canada in 1910 and lived in Kent, Ontario, Canada in 1911 and Blenheim, Kent, Ontario, Canada in 1916. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1916, at the age of 28, his occupation is listed as boiler maker in Blenheim, Kent, Ontario, Canada. He died on 30 July 1974, in Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, at the age of 86, and was buried in Greenock, Inverclyde, Scotland, United Kingdom.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 