Source: Sergeant Fendley service record promotion entry.
Family Search: When Private John Gray Russell was born on 15 June 1891, in Carluke, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, James Russell, was 30 and his mother, Mary Scott, was 33. He married Louise Davies on 22 June 1925, in Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada. He immigrated to Canada in 1911 and lived in Scotland, United Kingdom in 1891 and Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1917. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1914, at the age of 23, his occupation is listed as carpenter. He died on 17 August 1932, in Whitby, Ontario, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 41, and was buried in Oshawa Union Cemetery, Oshawa, Ontario, Ontario, Canada.
Attempted to join the American Army.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 