Source: 18th Battalion Nominal Roll, April 1915. This soldier is listed at the LAC database incorrectly with the regimental number of 33845.
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Family Search: When John Reginald Douglas Ranton was born on 13 February 1892, in St. Thomas, Elgin, Ontario, Canada, his father, Samuel A. M. Ranton, was 42 and his mother, Emily Ada Taylor Leitch, was 37. He married Eleanor MARIETTA Park on 30 June 1927, in Stratford, Perth, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Grey, Ontario, Canada in 1901 and Perth, Ontario, Canada in 1911. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1914, at the age of 22, his occupation is listed as furniture maker.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 