Source: Bruce Remembers.
Family Search: When Private Peter Cecil Martin was born on 24 November 1902, in Cape Croker, Neyaashiinigmiing, Bruce, Ontario, Canada, his father, Joseph Martin, was 51 and his mother, Mary Jane Megis Menomene, was 34. He married Marion Alva Charles on 28 October 1924, in Bruce, Ontario, Canada. He lived in Bruce, Ontario, Canada in 1901. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 13, his occupation is listed as labourer in Cape Croker, Neyaashiinigmiing, Bruce, Ontario, Canada. He died on 18 May 1941, in London, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 38, and was buried in Port Elgin, Saugeen Shores, Bruce, Ontario, Canada.
Indigenous Soldier from the “Cape Croker Reserve” now known as The Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation occupy Neyaashiinigmiing Aboriginal Reserve No.27.
Private Peter Cecil Martin, reg. no 802503
Note that the birth date for this man in undermined. Records show years of birth of 1896, 1900, and 1902.
This man enlisted with the 160th Battalion on 28 December 1915 at Wiarton, Ontario.
HE arrived in England on 28 October 1916 and was transferred for active combat duty on 29 August 1918 and arrived “in the field” on 7 September 1918.
He served the rest of the war with the 18th and was discharged due to demobilization on 24 May 1919 at London, Ontario.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 