Source: Per accident inquiry of the accidental wounding of Private Reginald Skeggs, reg. no. 802205.
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Family Search: When John Wilfred Morton was born on 22 June 1897, in Kingston, Frontenac, Ontario, Canada, his father, Joseph Witferd Morton, was 32 and his mother, Elizabeth Mary Beatrice Boulton, was 31. He married Mary Agnes Fitzgerald on 24 September 1923, in Kingston, Frontenac, Ontario, Canada. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 18, his occupation is listed as grocery clerk in Kingston, Frontenac, Ontario, Canada. He died on 14 November 1953, at the age of 56.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 