Source: News clipping involving Private Percy West. Name spelled Rowden in news clipping.
Family Search: When Private Edward Thomas Rowdon was born on 26 October 1893, in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Charles Henry Rowden, was 25 and his mother, Ellen Rowlinson, was 24. He married Gladys Emily Baker on 14 August 1919, in St. Catharines, Lincoln, Ontario, Canada. He lived in Middlesex, England, United Kingdom in 1911. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 22, his occupation is listed as clerk in St. Catharines, Lincoln, Ontario, Canada. He died on 10 February 1959, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 65, and was buried in Maple Cemetery, Maple, York, Ontario, Canada.
EDWARD THOMAS ROWDON
A former St. Catharines business man, Edward Thomas Rowdon, died suddenly last week in the Private Patients Pavilion, Toronto General Hospital, aged 65. Burial took place in Maple Cemetery. Born in England, he came to Canada and lived in St. Catharines for many years, operating a grocery business on Catherine St. until he moved to the Toronto district in 1922. He lived at Carrville Rd., Richvale, and was well known as a rose grower with the Mills Nursery, Richmond Hill. He is survived by his wife, the former Gladys Baker; four brothers and two sisters, all in St. Catharines, Percy, Sidney, Reginald and Archie Rowdon and Mrs. E. C. Hales (Nell) and Mrs. B. Tattersall (Win).
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 