Source: Per service record of L/Cpl. A.E. Blake, reg. no. 54108 promoted.
Family Search: When Sergeant Walter William Augustus Pope was born on 15 November 1895, in Waterlooville, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Walter Pope, was 26 and his mother, Anna Louise Emma Hoare, was 26. He married Catharine House on 24 October 1925, in Grimsby Township, Lincoln, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He immigrated to Canada in 1913 and lived in Fawley, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom, in 1901 and Milton, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom, in 1911. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1923, his occupation is listed as department manager, Firestone Tire and Rubber Company in Hamilton, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada. He died on 18 April 1945, in Hamilton, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 49, and was buried in Queen’s Lawn Cemetery, Grimsby, Niagara, Ontario, Canada.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 