Source: Memory of the death of Private Gehl.
Family Search: When Private Harold Leslie Samuel Tooke was born on 24 February 1897, in Bruce, Ontario, Canada, his father, Frederick Wakefield Tooke, was 49 and his mother, Sarah Jane Grogan, was 40. He married Gladys M. Gibbs on 1 October 1919, in Middlesex, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in London, Ontario, Canada in 1931. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1914, at the age of 17, his occupation is listed as tinsmith. He died on 15 November 1962, at the age of 65, and was buried in Starkvale Cemetery, Paisley, Bruce, Ontario, Canada
The Unforgettable Experience: Buried by a Shell
“Other Sad Afternoons to Come…”: The Death of Corporal Gehl
News clippings from the Paisley Advocate contributed by Jim Kelly.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 