Digitized Service Record
Source: Per Patrick Dennis at X (formerly Twitter).
Family Search: When Private Firman Earl Martin was born on 5 January 1893, in Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States, his father, Oliver S Martin, was 26 and his mother, Amanda Brubacher, was 24. He married Hilda J Paetz on 26 December 1923, in Kitchener, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He immigrated to Canada in 1917 and lived in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in 1911. He registered for military service in 1918. In 1924, his occupation is listed as foreman, kaufman rubber company in Kitchener, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He died on 26 March 1962, in Kitchener, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 69, and was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 