Source: Operation Picture Me via The 18th Battalion Facebook Group. Port Elgin Times Circa 1917.
Family Search: When Sergeant Wilfred Meredith Reany was born on 17 November 1892, in Saugeen, Bruce, Ontario, Canada, his father, John Wesley Reany, was 27 and his mother, Eliza Jane Cobean, was 23. He married Gertha Macphail on 3 July 1919, in Palmerston, Wellington, Canada West, British North America. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Southampton, Bruce, Ontario, Canada in 1921 and in Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada in 1931. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1931, at the age of 38, his occupation is listed as an engineer in Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada. He died on 5 January 1991, in London, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 98, and was buried in Priceville, Grey, Ontario, Canada.
This soldier transferred to the 4th Canadian Infantry Brigade Machine Gun Company. December 26, 1915.
Military Medal. London Gazette. No. 30364. 2/11/17.
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History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 