Source: From reply of an 18th Battalion Facebook Group member regarding the families participation in the First World War.
Family Search: When Private Hiram Taylor was born on 11 July 1894, in Curve Lake 35A, Galway-Cavendish and Harvey Township, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, his father, William Isaac Taylor Jr., was 28 and his mother, Mary Jane Yellowhead, was 23. He married Violet Williams on 15 September 1915, in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. He lived in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1916, at the age of 22, his occupation is listed as labourer in Curve Lake 35A, Galway-Cavendish and Harvey Township, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. He died on 22 January 1966, in Peterborough, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 71, and was buried in Curve Lake Cemetery, Curve Lake, Curve Lake First Nation 35, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Indigenous soldier.
One of 4 brothers that served in the 18th Battalion.
| Reg. No. | Name | Battalion |
| 195218 | Samson Taylor | 18th |
| 195827 | Horace Taylor | Canadian Forestry Corp |
| 195828 | Hiram Taylor | 18th |
| 195839 | William Taylor | 18th |
| 195959 | Issac Taylor | 18th |
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 