Source: 18th Battalion Nominal Roll, April 1915.
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Family Search: When Private Arthur Edward Prowse was born on 7 January 1884, in Abbotskerswell, Devon, England, United Kingdom, his father, Henry Albert Prowse, was 19 and his mother, Mary M Merrill, was 16. He married Elsie Bertha Cullen on 28 June 1910, in Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada. He immigrated to Quebec City, Quebec, Canada in 1913. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1924, at the age of 40, his occupation is listed as telephone operator in Seattle, King, Washington, United States. He died on 18 February 1950, in Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 66.
Served as a stretcher-bearer.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 