Source: Court martial database.
Family Search: Corporal Edward Frederick Sears was born on 28 May 1893, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States as the son of Bennett Sears and Louise Clark. He married Beatrice Allina Parks on 9 June 1919, in York, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He immigrated to Blaine, Whatcom, Washington, United States in 1927 and lived in Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada in 1922 and Seattle, King, Washington, United States for about 8 years. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1916, at the age of 23, his occupation is listed as assistant marine engineer in Niagara Falls, Niagara, New York, United States. He died in April 1990, at the age of 96.
American citizen.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 