Source: 18th Battalion Nominal Roll, April 1915.
Family Search: When James Andrew Wilson Speers was born on 2 March 1893, in Ashfield, Huron, Ontario, Canada, his father, William Speers, was 44 and his mother, Elizabeth Black, was 27. He married Nellie Cushing on 25 September 1922, in Ontario, Ontario, Canada. He lived in Ontario, Canada in 1911 and Kitchener, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in 1921. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1914, at the age of 21, his occupation is listed as machinist. He died on 30 April 1939, in London, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 46, and was buried in Woodland Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 