Source: 18th Battalion Nominal Roll, April 1915.
Family Search: When John William South was born on 23 October 1874, in Peel, Ontario, Canada, his father, Frederick South, was 44 and his mother, Anne South, was 32. He had at least 1 daughter with Hannah Mitchell. He lived in Mississauga, Peel, Ontario, Canada in 1881 and Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1920. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 41, his occupation is listed as drill hand. He died on 23 October 1940, in Greater Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, at the age of 66, and was buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 