Source: Gathering Our Heroes
Family Search: When Private Victor Arthur Swainston was born on 24 May 1897, in Portsea Island, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Robert Albert Swainston, was 32 and his mother, Mary Ann Abbott, was 29. He married Phoebe Bramhill on 21 December 1923, in Chatham, Kent, Ontario, Canada. He immigrated to Quebec, Quebec, Canada in 1911 and lived in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom in 1901. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1960, at the age of 63, his occupation is listed as janitor, king george school in Chatham, Kent, Ontario, Canada. He died in 1983, at the age of 86, and was buried in Maple Leaf Cemetery, Chatham, Chatham-Kent, Ontario, Canada.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 