Source: Found in news clipping from the London Advertiser dated March 24, 1916 about the death of his child.
Family Search: Reuben Albert Wilkes was born on 2 September 1891, in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom as the son of Reuben Wilkes and Kate Rooke. He married Frances Ellen Nicholls on 30 May 1911, in Woodstock, Oxford, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Oxford, Ontario, Canada in 1911 and Woodstock, Oxford, Ontario, Canada in 1921. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1919, at the age of 28, his occupation is listed as sign writer. He died on 21 September 1949, in London, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 58, and was buried in Anglican Cemetery, Woodstock, Oxford, Ontario, Canada.
11159-11 Reuben Albert WILKES, 20, gunstocker?, of Woodstock, s/o Reuben WILKES, plasterer, & Kate ROOKS, married Frances NICHOLLS, 19, of Woodstock, d/o John Henry NICHOLLS, engineer, & Ellen DATSON, witn: John Thomas WEBB & Frederick H. WEBBER, both of Woodstock, 30 May 1911 at Woodstock.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 