Source: SS Caronia Passenger Manifest. 1919.
Family Search: When Private Cecil Andrew Palen was born on 3 May 1897, in Tillsonburg, Oxford, Ontario, Canada, his father, Orrin Edward Palen, was 39 and his mother, Rhoda Sophia Weeks, was 36. He married Jessie Adeline Collens on 15 September 1920, in Tillsonburg, Oxford, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Woodstock, Oxford, Ontario, Canada in 1931 and Breslau, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in 1965. In 1951, his occupation is listed as mail man, canada post in Kitchener, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He died on 25 December 1977, in Kitchener, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 80, and was buried in Memory Gardens, Breslau, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 