Source: 18th Battalion Nominal Roll, April 1915.
Family Search: When Henry Wilford Pressey was born on 24 March 1889, in Haldimand, Ontario, Canada, his father, Elias James Pressey, was 34 and his mother, Eliza Sarah Amelia Rusling, was 22. He married Lecty Edith McLellan on 18 December 1922, in Dunwich Township, Elgin, Ontario, Canada. He lived in Ontario, Canada in 1889 and St. Thomas, Elgin, Ontario, Canada in 1921. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1914, at the age of 25, his occupation is listed as lineman. He died on 2 July 1947, at the age of 58, and was buried in Elmdale Memorial Park Cemetery, St. Thomas, Elgin, Ontario, Canada.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 