Source: During search regarding a Toronto Telegram, November 1939 news clipping about the 18th Battalion Associations.
Family Search: When Private Edward Wood was born on 31 January 1877, in Ashton Under Lyne, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Wood, was 35 and his mother, Rosina Bailey, was 35. He married Angelina Wood on 21 March 1898, in Portwood, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Portwood, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom in 1898 and Hamilton, Ontario, Canada in 1911. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 38, his occupation is listed as mill wright in Hamilton, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada. He died on 14 May 1948, in Hamilton, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 71, and was buried in White Chapel Memorial Gardens, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Lied about his age. Born 1877, not 1882.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 