Source: Per post at 18th Battalion Facebook Group post by Robert Blinko, administrator of the Soldiers of Uxbridge Web Site.
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Family Search: Private Hector James McPhail was born on 1 December 1884, in Uxbridge, Ontario, Ontario, Canada as the son of Andrew McPhail and Elizabeth Marks. He married Emily Jane McEldon on 7 April 1909, in Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He died on 20 May 1964, in Ontario, Canada, at the age of 79.
Injured while watching a baseball game.
Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Monday, April 06, 1959. Page 30.
Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Friday, April 24, 1959. Page 36.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 