Source: 18th Battalion Nominal Roll, April 1915.
Family Search: Harold Robert Worton was born on 16 February 1898, in Stowbridge, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom as the son of William Henry Worton and Mary Hatton. He married Ruth Winch on 26 November 1918, in Lambeth, London, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. He immigrated to Guelph, Wellington, Ontario, Canada in 1911 and lived in Waterford, Norfolk, Ontario, Canada in 1941 and Preston, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in 1948. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1914, at the age of 16, his occupation is listed as labourer. He died on 15 March 1969, in Galt, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 71, and was buried in Woodlawn MemorialPark, Guelph, Wellington, Ontario, Canada.
May have joined under-aged. Gravesite indicates he was born in 1898. His attestation papers claim 1886.
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History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 