Source: 116th Excel sheet by Mark Carmichael re. soldiers of 116th that served with the 18th Battalion.
Family Search: When James Victor Ormiston was born on 5 November 1890, in Beaverton, Ontario, Ontario, Canada, his father, James Ormiston, was 32 and his mother, Grace Gardiner, was 32. He married Gladys Maxwell Irwin on 7 June 1919, in Ontario, Canada. He lived in Cresswell, Kawartha Lakes, Ontario, Canada in 1919. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1916, at the age of 26, his occupation is listed as farmer in Cresswell, Kawartha Lakes, Ontario, Canada. He died in 1987, at the age of 97, and was buried in Elmdale Memorial Park Cemetery, St. Thomas, Elgin, Ontario, Canada.
| Reg number | 745149 |
| Name | Ormiston, James Victor |
| Rank | Private |
| Year of Birth | 3/4/1905 |
| Date of Death | |
| Cemetery | |
| Cemetery location | |
| Country of birth | Canada |
| Home Country | Canada |
| City born | Beaverton, ON |
| Address | Cresswell, ON |
| Enlistment Date | 11/8/1915 |
| Drafted? | |
| Enlistment place | Port Perry |
| Origin Unit | 116th Battalion |
| Pre war Unit | |
| Final Bn | 18th |
| Ship | SS Olympic |
| Date in England | 7/31/1916 |
| Date in France | |
| Date w 116 | 11/8/1915 |
| Left 116th | |
| Married | no |
| Occupation | farmer |
| Wounded date | 3/13/1917 |
| Wound type/Death particuolars | SW Neck and shoulder, myalsia, rheumatism |
| KIA | |
| DOW | |
| Died other | |
| Missing/Presumed Dead | |
| Wounded | yes |
| Sick | yes |
| PTSD | yes |
| Medals | |
| Vimy | |
| Vimy area | |
| Raid | |
| Hill 70 | |
| Pass | |
| Amiens | |
| Parvillers | |
| Boiry | |
| Canal | |
| Other | |
| Unit History | 116th to 18th |
| Other details | A Coy, wounded at Neuville st vaast, discharged |
| Field Punishment | |
| FP Details | |
| Gravestone | |
| Underage | |
| Medically Unit | |
| Deserter | |
| Undesirable | |
| Casualty Description |
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 