Family Search: When Private Orvis Earle Wickwire was born on 28 March 1891, in Leamington, Essex, Ontario, Canada, his father, Joseph Wesley Wickwire, was 25 and his mother, Theresa Adela Moody, was 19. He married Gladys May Deforest on 29 August 1925, in Ridgetown, Kent, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Blenheim, Kent, Ontario, Canada in 1916 and Chatham, Kent, Ontario, Canada in 1926. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1916, at the age of 25, his occupation is listed as farmer in Blenheim, Kent, Ontario, Canada. He died on 25 October 1968, in London, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 77, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Ridgetown, Chatham-Kent, Ontario, Canada.
His brother, Private Everett Darius Wickwire, reg. no. 189884 served in the 18th Battalion.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 