Source: War Diary Entry from July 24, 1918, indicating he earned a Mention in Dispatches. See London Gazette, no. 30706, page 6198.
Family Search: When Corporal James Wackett was born on 11 November 1894, in Romford, Essex, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Wackett, was 36 and his mother, Mary Ann McGoverin, was 31. He immigrated to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1912 and lived in London, Ontario, Canada in 1919 and Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1920. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 21, his occupation is listed as labourer. He died in June 1934, in Romford, Essex, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 39.
Military Medal per London Gazette. no. 31340.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 