Source: Per post of photograph at the 160th Bruce Battalion Facebook Group.
Family Search: When Private Francis Ritchie was born on 25 June 1889, in Chippawa Hill, Saugeen 29, Bruce, Ontario, Canada, his father, Peter Mamawassige Ritchie, was 42 and his mother, Sophia Wahbezee, was 17. He lived in Bruce, Ontario, Canada in 1911. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1916, at the age of 27, his occupation is listed as labourer in Chippawa Hill, Saugeen 29, Bruce, Ontario, Canada. He died on 29 September 1924, at the age of 35, and was buried in Chippawa Hill Saugeen Reserve Cemetery, Chippawa Hill, Saugeen 29, Bruce, Ontario, Canada.
Brother to Private Peter Ritchie reg. no. 652094 KIA 27 August 1918.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 