Source: SS Caronia Passenger Manifest. 1919.
Family Search: When Private John James Preisz was born on 17 March 1892, in Wiarton, Bruce, Ontario, Canada, his father, Louis Henry Preisz, was 34 and his mother, Mary Ann Schlattman, was 30. He married Esther Mae Poore on 6 August 1919, in Stratford, Perth, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Bruce, Ontario, Canada in 1901. He registered for military service in 1918. In 1918, at the age of 26, his occupation is listed as farmer in Wiarton, Bruce, Ontario, Canada. He died on 18 August 1962, in London, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 70, and was buried in Bayview Cemetery, Wiarton, Bruce, Canada West, British North America.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 