Source: Operation Picture Me via The 18th Battalion Facebook Group. London Free Press Circa 1917.
Family Search: Private Charles Thompson was born on 28 April 1880, in London, Ontario, Canada. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 35, his occupation is listed as machinist. He died on 20 May 1943, in London, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 63, and was buried in Woodland Cemetery, London, Ontario, Canada.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 