Source: From “Familiar Fields to Foreign Soil: Three Rural Townships and the Great War”, page 268.
Family Search: When Private Carl Clayton Shelby was born on 1 April 1899, in East Oxford Township, Oxford, Ontario, Canada, his father, William Shelby, was 37 and his mother, Mary Ann Ratz, was 34. He married Ethel Ruby Shelby on 9 January 1923, in Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States. He lived in Paxton, Ford, Illinois, United States in 1940 and Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1968. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1916, at the age of 17, his occupation is listed as clerk in Eastwood, Oxford, Ontario, Canada. He died on 15 October 1968, in Barrie, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 69, and was buried in Glen Cemetery, Paxton, Ford, Illinois, United States.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 