Source: 18th Battalion Nominal Roll, April 1915.
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Family Search: When Ernest Wells was born on 19 July 1881, in Reading, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Samuel Wells, was 31 and his mother, Emma Jane Wallis, was 30. He had at least 1 son with Ethel Mary Slade. He lived in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1920 and Sandwich, Windsor, Essex, Ontario, Canada in 1922. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1914, at the age of 33, his occupation is listed as labourer.MORE
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 