Source: 18th Battalion Nominal Roll, April 1915.
Family Search: When John Henry Reed was born on 14 November 1874, in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Charles Reed, was 30 and his mother, Ann Farmery, was 29. He married Nettie L. Reynolds on 4 October 1912, in Battle Creek, Calhoun, Michigan, United States. He lived in Saltfleetby St Clement, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom in 1881 and Battle Creek, Calhoun, Michigan, United States in 1920. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1914, at the age of 40, his occupation is listed as moulder. He died on 17 October 1946, in Marengo, Calhoun, Michigan, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Union Cemetery, Barry, Michigan, United States.
There is a note that he passed at the County Poor Farm, Marengo County, Michigan.
War Diary of the 18th Battalion CEF 