Source: Gathering Our Heroes
Family Search: When Private Bruce Morton Russell was born on 25 July 1895, in Raleigh, Kent, Ontario, Canada, his father, Silas William Russell, was 35 and his mother, Mary Ellen McDowell, was 22. He married Pearl Luella Johnston on 5 April 1919, in Mount Pleasant, Isabella, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 8 daughters. He lived in Kent, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years and Township of Chippewa, Isabella, Michigan, United States in 1920. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1931, at the age of 35, his occupation is listed as farmer in Raleigh, Kent, Ontario, Canada. He died on 3 October 1969, in Calhoun, Florida, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Pardoville Union Cemetery, Chatham-Kent, Ontario, Canada.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 