Source: 18th Battalion Nominal Roll, April 1915.
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Family Search: When Mr Edmund Alwyn Watson was born on 13 October 1892, in Cropton, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas Arthur Watson, was 40 and his mother, Charlotte Dennison, was 38. He had at least 1 son with Beatrice Ada Rowden. He immigrated to Canada in 1913 and lived in Settrington, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1901 and Watford, Warwick, Lambton, Ontario, Canada in 1919. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1914, at the age of 22, his occupation is listed as farmer in Sarnia, Kent, Ontario, Canada. He died on 20 September 1964, in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 71.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 