Source: The Clinton News Record, 1918-8-22, Page 1.
Family Search: When Private Malcolm Lloyd Toms was born on 3 June 1893, in Bayfield River, Huron, Ontario, Canada, his father, John Nicholas Toms, was 30 and his mother, Elisa McNeil, was 31. He married Florence Catherine Johnston on 7 September 1920, in Goderich, Huron, Ontario, Canada. He immigrated to Vermont, United States in 1910 and lived in Ontario, Canada in 1893 and Huron, Ontario, Canada in 1901. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1916, at the age of 23, his occupation is listed as fisherman. He died on 13 April 1968, in Clinton, Huron, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 74, and was buried in Bayfield Cemetery, Bayfield, Bluewater, Huron, Ontario, Canada.
Brother to Toms, Hugh Wilfred: Service no. 654440 of the 18th Battalion. He served in the 18th Battalion and was killed in action. He was wounded on the same day his brother died.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 