Source: 18th Battalion Nominal Roll, April 1915.
Family Search: When David Albert Townsend Jr. was born on 10 March 1896, in Stratford, Perth, Ontario, Canada, his father, David Albert Townsend, was 33 and his mother, Alvinia Bertha Peick, was 31. He married Laura Grace Watson on 12 March 1921, in Aurora, York, Upper Canada, British Colonial America. He lived in Perth, Ontario, Canada in 1911 and Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada in 1945. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1914, at the age of 18, his occupation is listed as plumber in Stratford, Perth, Ontario, Canada. He died in June 1954, at the age of 58, and was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 