Source: SS Caronia Passenger Manifest. 1919.
Family Search: When Private Otto Franklin Ward was born on 2 December 1898, in London, Ontario, Canada, his father, Franklin Ernest Ward, was 24 and his mother, Harriet Knee, was 22. He married Margaret Elizabeth Mitchell on 22 September 1934, in London, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Ontario, Canada in 1898. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 17, his occupation is listed as labourer in London, Ontario, Canada. He died on 10 November 1982, in London, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 83, and was buried in Christ Church Anglican Cemetery, Lakeside, Oxford, Ontario, Canada.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 