Source: Photo of “D” Company, 18th Battalion, post-war.
Family Search: When Private Nelson Emmett Mayhew was born on 2 July 1897, in Thamesville, Kent, Ontario, Canada, his father, Charles A. Mayhew, was 32 and his mother, Anna Laura Gillies, was 32. He married Alma Gertrude Jeffery on 6 September 1922, in Windsor, Essex, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He immigrated to Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1927 and lived in Bothwell, Chatham-Kent, Ontario, Canada in 1901 and Windsor, Sandwich, Essex, Ontario, Canada for about 13 years. He registered for military service in 1918. In 1918, at the age of 21, his occupation is listed as book keeper and salesman in Windsor, Sandwich, Essex, Ontario, Canada. He died on 22 July 1938, in Harrow, Essex, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 41, and was buried in Victoria Memorial Gardens, Oldcastle, Tecumseh, Essex, Ontario, Canada.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 