Source: 18th Battalion Association Memory about Lt. John Clarke. Part of a party with author of the story. Possible replacement No. McQueen on Nominal Roll April 1915. Mystery soldier until post by Lori Oschefski regarding his service with 18th.
Family Search: When Private Joseph Davenport McQueen was born on 25 August 1896, in Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, Charles McQueen, was 36 and his mother, Martha Ann Davenport, was 34. He married Aleta Madeline Myers in 1933. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He immigrated to Quebec City, Quebec, Canada in 1912 and lived in Roxbury, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States in 1942 and Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States in 1950. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1924, at the age of 28, his occupation is listed as a carpenter in Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. He died on 2 April 1990, in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 93.
This British Home Child enlisted with the Canadian Expeditionary Force on 20 June 1915, at Sherbrooke, Quebec. His trade appears to be a “journaler”, possibly the French word for a day labourer.
He sailed from Quebec City for England aboard the SS Corsican on 21 July 1915.
He was drafted to the 18th Battalion from the 23rd Reserve Battalion on 21 January 1916, and arrived with the 18th “in the field” on 4 February 1916.
He had a short bout of influenza on 10 July 1916, requiring admittance to No. 4 Canadian Field Ambulance and he was discharged for duty 7 days later.
He was transferred to the 4th Canadian Infantry Brigade Headquarters as a batman, or soldier’s servant, effective 13 March 1917.
He served with that unit until he was tapped to go to go to the 2nd Canadian Division Headquarters, as a batman effective 17 October 1917. Prior to this he received a 10 days leave effective 2 June 1917.
He was granted two more 14 days leave, one starting on 5 March 1918, and the second one on 17 January 1919. Both leaves were to the United Kingdom.
He contracted VD and reported for treatment on 2 April 1919 and was reported fully healed at the Convalescent Hospital at Woodcote Park on 11 June 1919.
He returned to Canada and was demobilized due to the end of the war on 6 July 1919, and indicated that he was going to live a Sawyerville, Quebec.
He was living in Sawyerville as of 1921, but moved to Massachusetts sometime in 1924 and is shown to have the trade of carpenter.
He married Aleta Madeline Myers in 1933, and they lived in and around the Boston area (Roxbury, Lynn) and died on 2 April 1990 and was cremated.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 