Source: Per post by member of the 18th Battalion Facebook Group.
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Family Search: Private Wilfrid Sharples was born on 22 January 1890, in Lancashire, England, United Kingdom as the son of William Sharples and Margaret Bailey. He married Lily Williams on 11 April 1924, in Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada. He immigrated to Canada in 1913 and lived in Windsor, Sandwich Township, Essex, Ontario, Canada in 1917. He registered for military service in 1917. In 1917, at the age of 27, his occupation is listed as labourer in Windsor, Sandwich Township, Essex, Ontario, Canada. He died on 10 March 1979, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 89.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 