Source: London Advertiser. October 12, 1916. Page 11.
Find-A-Grave: Died 15 June 1961.
Family Search: When Private James Edward Ward was born on 1 September 1881, in Selby, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Edward Francis Ward, was 32 and his mother, Bridget Teresa Waldron, was 30. He married Margaret Dineen on 26 June 1907 in Collingwood, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He immigrated to Canada in 1906 and lived in Lambton, Ontario, Canada in 1901 and Sarnia, Lambton, Ontario, Canada, for about 2 years. He registered for military service in 1914. He died on 15 June 1961, in London, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 79, and was buried in Our Lady Of Mercy Cemetery, Sarnia, Lambton, Ontario, Canada.
Wounded September 15, 1916, at Courcelette.
Private James Edward Ward, reg. no. 53632.
This man enlisted with the 18th Battalion on 24 October 1914 at Sarnia, Ontario. He was a boiler maker practicing the Roman Catholic faith.
He went overseas with the 18th Battalion and trained in England from May to September 1915, going “overseas” with the Battalion to Belgium on 15 September 1915.
He was wounded at the Battle of Flers-Courcelette on 15 September 1916 with a GSW and was sent to the 4th and 5th Canadian Field Ambulances for treatment, returning to the 18th Battalion on 5 October 1915.
He was granted a 10-day leave on 24 December 1916.
He was attached to the 2nd Canadian Divisional Salvage Company on 27 January 1917.
Private Ward had a short bout of myalgia on his right leg on 1 March 1917 and was discharged from duty on 3 March 1917.
While Private Ward was attached to the Salvage Company, he was given Field Punishment No. 1 for drunkenness effective 3 April 1917.
He was returned to the 18th Battalion on 13 October 1917 and was granted a 14-day leave on 4 December 1917.
Returning to the 18th, he was again awarded Field Punishment No. 1 for drunkenness for 14-days.
He was classified B.1 by a medical board on 8 July 1918 by a medical board while “in the field,” and he was sent for treatment to several Canadian Field Ambulances. Once recovered, he was transferred to the 1st Canadian Infantry Works Battalion on 27 June 1918.
He was granted another 14-day leave on 18 November 1918.
With the war over, he returned to Canada on 24 March 1919, leaving Liverpool aboard the HMTS Canada.
He was discharged due to demobilization on 3 April 1919 in London, Ontario.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 