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Family Search: When Sergeant Jesse James Travers was born on 27 March 1888, in Cotleigh, Devon, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Isaac Lake Travers, was 35 and his mother, Sarah Ann Harris, was 33. He immigrated to Canada in 1912 and lived in Woodstock, Blandford Township, Oxford, Ontario, Canada in 1914 and Buxton, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom in 1921. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1914, at the age of 26, his occupation is listed as farmer. He died on 24 February 1943, in Chapel en le Frith, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 54, and was buried in Buxton Cemetery, Buxton, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 