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 Canada in 1913. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1914, at the age of 16, his occupation is listed as labourer. He died in 1969, in Guelph, Wellington, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 71, and was buried in Woodlawn Memorial Park, Guelph, Wellington, Ontario, Canada.
May have joined under-aged. Gravesite indicates he was born in 1898. His attestation papers claim 1886.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 