Source: 18th Battalion Nominal Roll, April 1915.
Family Search: Sergeant William A. Pilkington was born on 21 February 1880, in Burnley, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. He had at least 1 son with Ruth. He immigrated to Canada in 1895 and lived in Bruce, Ontario, Canada in 1911 and Kincardine, Bruce, Ontario, Canada in 1915. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 35, his occupation is listed as barber in Kincardine, Bruce, Ontario, Canada. He died in 1945, at the age of 65, and was buried in London, Ontario, Canada.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 