Source: 18th Battalion Nominal Roll, April 1915.
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Family Search: Private John Richardson Rutherford was born on 25 November 1886, in Saint Boswells, Roxburghshire, Scotland, United Kingdom as the son of Robert Rutherford and Elizabeth Richardson. He married Mary W. Balfour on 29 December 1922, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States. He immigrated to Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1914 and lived in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1920 and Highland Park, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1921. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 29, his occupation is listed as clerk.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 