Source: SS Caronia Passenger Manifest. 1919.
Family Search: When Private Ernest Percy Secord was born on 28 December 1896, in Howard, Kent, Ontario, Canada, his father, George Secord, was 23 and his mother, Jetty Bridget Tuite, was 21. He married Hilda May Carroll on 3 November 1923, in Kent, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Ontario, Canada in 1896 and Thamesville, Kent, Ontario, Canada in 1921. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 19, his occupation is listed as farmer in Thamesville, Kent, Ontario, Canada. He died on 17 December 1981, in Kent, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 84, and was buried in Thamesville, Chatham-Kent, Ontario, Canada.
Private Ernest “Ernie” Percy Secord, reg. no. 189296.
This man enlisted with the91st Battalion on 2 November 1915 at Chatham, Ontario. He was transferred to the 186th Battalion being formed in Chatham on 28 February 1916.
He was a Farmer following the Methodist faith.
He arrived in England on 7 April 1917 aboard the SS Lapland.
He went overseas to join the 18th Battalion on 5 September 1917 and arrived “in the field” on 120 November 1917.
He was granted a 14 days leave to the United Kingdom on 28 October 1918 and returned from that leave on 15 November 1918.
He contracted influenza that required treatment at No. 6 and No. 4 Canadian Field Ambulance from 6 March 1919 to 15 March 1919.
He served the rest of the war with the 18th Battalion with a stint of occupation duty in Germany after the war ended.
He was discharged due to demobilization on 24 May 1919 at London, Ontario.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 