Source: Per Allan Miller at the 149th Battalion Facebook Group.
Family Search: When Private Norman Kimball McDonald was born on 20 August 1896, in Sombra, Lambton, Ontario, Canada, his father, John W MacDonald, was 31 and his mother, Maud Kilbreath, was 18. He lived in Ontario, Canada, in 1896 and in Lambton, Ontario, Canada, in 1911. He died on 23 January 1979, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Lakeview Cemetery, Sarnia, Lambton, Ontario, Canada.


