Source: 18th Battalion Nominal Roll, April 1915.
Family Search: William John Pollard was born on 6 March 1889, in Middlesex, England, United Kingdom. He married Jessie Ann Stewart on 6 November 1922, in Ontario, Canada. He immigrated to Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States in 1902 and lived in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada in 1928. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1914, at the age of 25, his occupation is listed as farmer. He died on 7 February 1928, in Wiarton, Bruce, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 38, and was buried in Bayview Cemetery, Wiarton, Bruce, Ontario, Canada.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 