Source: SS Caronia Passenger Manifest. 1919.
Family Search: When Private Walter Valentine Mickus was born on 5 October 1896, in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, his father, John Joseph Mickus, was 44 and his mother, Christina Klumpp, was 39. He married Amelia Renner on 7 April 1925, in Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He immigrated to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1919 and lived in Guelph, Wellington, Ontario, Canada in 1931. He registered for military service in 1918. In 1918, at the age of 22, his occupation is listed as shoemaker in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He died on 2 July 1960, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 63, and was buried in Highland Memory Gardens, Willowdale, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Private Walter Valentine Mickus, reg. no. 3130274
This man reported for military service under the MSA (1917) at London, Ontario on 3 January 1918.
He arrived in England on 4 March 1918 aboard the SS Cretic and was transferred for active combat duty on 18 August 1918 and arrived “in the field” on 28 August 1918.
He served the rest of the war with the 18th and was discharged due to demobilization on 24 May 1919 at London, Ontario.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 