Source: Per news clipping post by David Archer at 18th Battalion Facebook Page (not group).
Family Search: When Private Neil Patrick Purcell was born on 25 October 1886, in Sheet Harbour, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, his father, Thomas George Purcell, was 41 and his mother, Mary Anne Currie, was 27. He married Dora Mabel Spears on 9 October 1919, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Sheet Harbour 36, Halifax, Nova Scotia, British North America in 1886 and Halifax, Nova Scotia, British North America for about 18 years. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1916, at the age of 30, his occupation is listed as labourer in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He died on 26 June 1967, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, at the age of 80, and was buried in Saint Peters Roman Catholic Cemetery, Sheet Harbour, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 