Source: Per photograph at Bruce Remembers site during research re. Private Charles Arthur Reed, 651593.
Family Search: When Private Edward Frederick Zimmerman was born on 28 December 1893, in Normanby Township, Grey, Ontario, Canada, his father, Johann Georg Zimmermann, was 40 and his mother, Eva Catherine Mueller, was 36. He married Elizabeth Ruth Askew on 28 September 1937, in Leamington, Essex, Ontario, Canada. He lived in Grey, Ontario, Canada in 1901 and Cargill, Bruce, Ontario, Canada in 1920. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 22, his occupation is listed as moulder. He died on 22 April 1983, in Petrolia, Lambton, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 89, and was buried in Hillsdale Cemetery, Petrolia, Lambton, Ontario, Canada
Friend with Private C.A. Reed.
Private Edward Frederick Zimmerman, reg. no. 651151.
This man enlisted in the 160th Overseas Battalion on 31 December 1915, at Southampton, Ontario. He was a moulder by trade and practiced the Presbyterian faith.
He was appointed as a Lance-Corporal on 17 July 1916.
He, along with the 160th Battalion, embarked at Halifax, Nova Scotia, for the journey to England. He arrived at Liverpool, England, on 28 October 1916, a trip of 11 days. They were sent to Witley Camp.
He was appointed an Acting-Corporal on the date of their departure from Canada.
He was to revert to the rank of Private on 3 August 1917, in preparation for being transferred to a line battalion. This started a process where he was transferred, first to the 4th Canadian Reserve Battalion, effective 23 February 1918. Five days later, he was on his way to the front, having been transferred to the 18th Battalion on 28 August 1918.
He arrived at No. 2 Canadian Base Depot on 29 March 1918. On 3 April 1918, he arrived at the Canadian Corps Reinforcement Camp, where he trained until 31 August 1918, when he arrived on that date “in the field” with the 18th Battalion.
He was severely wounded in action on 11 October 1918 at Iwuy, France. He was sent to No. 18 General Hospital and then he was posted to No. 3 Imperial D.D. on 25 November 1918. From there, he was attached to the 4th Canadian Reserve Battalion at Witley Camp.
With the war over, he would be sent to No. 1 Wing, Western Ontario Regiment at Kinmel Park, where he would stay from 12 February 1919 until he boarded the HMT Belgic on 23 February 1919, for the trip home, leaving Liverpool that day and arriving at Halifax on 2 March 1919.
He was discharged due to demobilization on 24 March 1919, at London, Ontario.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 