Source: February 6, 1918 war diary entry re. award of Coix de Guerre (Belgium).
Family Search: When Private Francis Keith Showler was born on 16 January 1898, in Arkona, Lambton, Ontario, Canada, his father, John Thomas Showler, was 38 and his mother, Selena Margaret Thomas, was 38. He married Helen Frances Taylor on 1 June 1921, in Muskegon, Muskegon, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He immigrated to Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1945 and lived in Lincoln Park, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1935 and Taylor Township, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1940. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1916, at the age of 18, his occupation is listed as clerk in London, Ontario, Canada. He died on 30 April 1968, in Wayne, Wayne, Michigan, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Alban Cemetery, Ypsilanti, Washtenaw, Michigan, United States.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 