Source: Per research by 160th Battalion Facebook Group. Confirmed served with the 18th Battalion.
Family Search: When Private John Martin was born on 27 July 1895, in Saugeen, Bruce, Ontario, Canada, his father, Matthew Mashkewadong Martin, was 26 and his mother, Mary Jane Kahgee, was 26. He married Rachel Hannah Francis in 1918, in Holborn, London, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Bruce, Ontario, Canada in 1901. He registered for military service in 1916. He died on 5 March 1961, at the age of 65, and was buried in Chippawa Hill Saugeen Reserve Cemetery, Chippawa Hill, Saugeen 29, Bruce, Ontario, Canada.
Indigenous Soldier
Private John Martin, reg. no. 651431.
This man was enlisted with the 160th Battalion at Southampton, Ontario on 18 January 1916.
He was a sailor and followed the Methodist faith.
He was single and listed his father Mr. Mathew Martin of Chippawa Hill, Ontario, as his next-of-kin. He had no prior military experience.
Arriving at Liverpool England aboard the SS Metagama on 28 October 1917 he was struck off strength with the 160th Battalion and transferred to the 4th Canadian Reserve Battalion at Witley Camp on 23 February 1918 and arrived and was taken on strength with that battalion on 24 February 1918 at Bramshott.
He was admitted to an Isolation Hospital on 10 January 1917 at Bramshott for Mumps and was released on 12 January 1917.
He was awarded a Good Conduct Badge on 18 January 1918 while at Witley Camp.
He was transferred to the 18th Battalion on 28 March 1918 and was sent overseas on the next day arriving at 2nd Canadian Infantry Base Depot at Etaples. He was then transferred to the Canadian Corps Reinforcement Camp in 3 April 1918 and then arrived in the field with the 18th on 13 August 1918.
He was wounded with “gun shot wounds” on 16 August 1918 with a gun shot wound to the left hand (slight) invalided to England for care transiting the English Channel aboard the AT Essiquibo.
He was treated first at 2rnd N.G. Cardiff 20 August 1918 and then was sent to Woodcote Park, Epsom for convalescence on 12 September 1919 and was discharged on 25 September 1918.
At this time he was transferred from the 18th Battalion to the Western Ontario Regimental Depot effective 19 August 1918.
He was sent to Witley Camp on 3 November 1918 and assigned to the 4th Canadian Reserve Battalion.
He met his wife in England and was married with permission at St. Albans and this was notated as having occurred 28 September 1918.
With the war ended he was transferred back to the Western Ontario Regimental Depot at Witley.
He was stuck off strength to Canada on 21 February 1919 and was posted to Casualty Company Hospital Section at Spadina Military Hospital.
Private Martin was admitted to Spadina Military Hospital on 12 April 1919 for tuberculosis and was discharged after treatment on 17 April 1919.
He was discharged as medically unfit and it was noted he had one wound stripe. His discharged occurred at Toronto, Ontario on 25 April 1919.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 