Digitized Service Record
Source: SS Caronia Passenger Manifest. 1919.
Family Search: When Lance-Corporal Robert William Wilson was born on 25 January 1891, in Woodside, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, his father, John Wilson, was 34 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Will, was 18. He had at least 1 son with Margaret Craig. He immigrated to Canada in 1913 and lived in Windsor, Sandwich, Essex, Ontario, Canada for about 5 years and Windsor, Essex, Ontario, Canada in 1975. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1916, at the age of 25, his occupation is listed as mechanic in Windsor, Sandwich, Essex, Ontario, Canada. He died on 6 January 1975, in London, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 83, and was buried in Victoria Memorial Gardens, Oldcastle, Essex, Ontario, Canada.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 