Source: SS Caronia Passenger Manifest. 1919.
Family Search: When Private Walter Augustus West was born on 3 October 1898, in Northumberland, Ontario, Canada, his father, Albert Augustus West, was 26 and his mother, Alice Emily Hewitt, was 24. He married Mary Anne Jones on 5 September 1923, in Cardwell Township, Muskoka, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Rosseau, Seguin Township, Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada in 1922 and Cardwell Township, Muskoka, Ontario, Canada in 1931. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1931, at the age of 33, his occupation is listed as farmer in Cardwell Township, Muskoka, Ontario, Canada. He died on 29 October 1969, in Huntsville, Muskoka, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 71, and was buried in Hutcheson Memorial Cemetery, Huntsville, Muskoka, Ontario, Canada.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 