Source: SS Caronia Passenger Manifest. 1919.
Family Search: When Private William Allan Wilson was born on 13 May 1898, in Oil Springs, Lambton, Canada West, British North America, his father, John Peter Wilson, was 42 and his mother, Dinah Jane Smyth, was 28. He lived in Lambton, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years and Oil Springs, Lambton, Ontario, Canada in 1916. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1943, his occupation is listed as letter carrier, Canada Post in Sarnia, Lambton, Ontario, Canada. He died on 10 October 1961, in St. Thomas, Elgin, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 63, and was buried in Oil Springs Cemetery, Oil Springs, Lambton, Ontario, Canada.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 