Digitized Service Record
Source: Per post at 18th Battalion Facebook Group by Allan Miller.
Family Search: When Private James Medlyn was born on 3 August 1898, in Towednack, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas Medlyn, was 38 and his mother, Eliza Thomas, was 38. He married Elsie Grace Bonnick on 8 August 1923, in St. Thomas, Elgin, Ontario, Canada. He lived in Wolborough, Devon, England, United Kingdom in 1911 and St. Thomas, Elgin, Ontario, Canada in 1917. He registered for military service in 1917. In 1917, at the age of 19, his occupation is listed as car checker in St. Thomas, Elgin, Ontario, Canada. He died on 13 May 1969, in London, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 70.
This man was very involved in music and sang as a tenor and was a choir master.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 