Source: 18th Battalion Nominal Roll, April 1915.
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Family Search: When Private John McQuillan was born on 17 October 1893, in Guelph Township, Wellington, Ontario, Canada, his father, Arthur W. McQuillan, was 51 and his mother, Mary Jane Murphy, was 35. He lived in Guelph, Wellington, Ontario, Canada in 1921 and Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1964. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1914, at the age of 21, his occupation is listed as printer in Guelph, Wellington, Ontario, Canada.
Military Medal per London Gazette No. 31430. 3 July 1919.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 